Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are ... used remote-sensing technology to map what they describe as a sprawling, nearly ...

The renowned Silk Road was a network of trade routes that spanned the Asian, North African, and European continents between ...

Once a thriving hub of commerce, learning, and military strategy along the Silk Road, the ancient city of Sauran stands today as one of Kazakhstan’s most remarkable remnants of medieval urban culture.

“We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just about the endpoints of China and the West,” he adds.

A map produced by the remote sensing technique called LiDAR shows Tugunbulak, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan. The medieval settlement was located along Central Asia's Silk Road. A map ...

Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, in the mountains of Uzbekistan, were bustling medieval centers of Silk Road trade ... along the Silk Road and beyond. "We could really change the map of urban development ...

The Soviet Union ruled over much of Central Asia for more than half the 20th century, leaving an enduring physical and ideological legacy that can still be observed in the Silk Road nations of ...

Two high-altitude, medieval cities built by mobile herders along Silk Road trade routes in Central Asia have been hiding in plain sight — until now. Mountainous regions typically have been seen ...

On conventional maps, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent were assumed to avoid the mountains of Central Asia. But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously ...

Michael Wood looks at the opening of the Silk Road & 'the beginnings of universal history' Michael takes a stroll through the fabulous markets of Kashgar in Chinese Central Asia, still today full ...

the brand-new Silk Road Samarkand resort is as grandiose as anything Amir Timur (who was born in modern-day Uzbekistan and founded Central Asia's sprawling Timurid Empire) could have dreamt of.