Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in ... The Silk Road was not just one, but many trade routes through Central Asia, as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and ... who led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the modern-day Uzbekistan.

However, the newfound highland cities were too big to simply be trading posts or Silk Road stopovers ... information to create a three-dimensional map of the environment below.

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities ... map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road ...