A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

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 ...

Lost Silk Road cities mapped using remote sensing. Katie Hunt, CNN. Thu, October 24, 2024 at 3:16 AM UTC. 6 min read. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Researchers have discovered the remains of medieval cities perched above the ancient Silk Road in the rugged mountains of southeastern Uzbekistan. One of them is a sprawling, high-altitude ...

If you ask me, as an archeologist, the foundations of Silk Road can be traced back to the Bronze Age. But the peak of this exchange we date to the medieval period, between the 6th century and the ...

Two cities that flourished as part of the Silk Road have been mapped though drone-borne LiDAR, revealing them as two of the largest cities on the mountainous part of that world-changing path, or ...

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 ...

Hiding in plain sight. Two cities have been found in Central Asia along what was formerly the Silk Road, according to a study published in the journal Nature.The cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak ...

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road in a discovery that could shift the perspective on what we know about the ancient trading route.

Lost Silk Road cities mapped using remote sensing. Katie Hunt, CNN. October 23, 2024 at 1:10 PM. Copied; Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Lost Silk Road cities mapped using remote sensing. By CNN Newssource. Published October 23, 2024 11:10 AM . By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Lost for centuries ...