The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ... used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the modern-day Uzbekistan. Both were built over 2,000 ...

For centuries, these abandoned cities lay hidden beneath ... But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously predicted. Using modern drone mapping technology known ...

revealing them as two of the largest cities on the mountainous part of that world-changing path, or indeed anywhere at such altitude. The Silk Road helped make the modern world, allowing not just ...

A thousand years ago, inhabitants of two mountain-top cities in modern-day Uzbekistan experienced ... protecting merchants traveling along the Silk Road, the authors say. "While typically seen ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago. The team of researchers—led by ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan using drones and LiDAR. The fabled cities had lain buried under mountain pastures for centuries. Light detection and ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered by drones sent searching for their secrets. For ...