The first use of drone-based lidar in Central Asia revealed details of two newly discovered trade cities in the mountains of ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains, providing new insights into life along the ancient trade route. “This changes everything we thought we knew.” ...

On conventional maps of the Silk Road ... have also uncovered coins from across modern-day Uzbekistan, Maksudov says, suggesting the city may have been a hub for trade. It doesn't appear to ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds ...

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along ... on drones to map the scale and ...

A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

A pair of lost cities in the highlands of Uzbekistan recently found by archaeologists using ... Lidar stands for Light ...

(Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by ... in high-elevation Central Asia," Frachetti said. The ...

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, playing a strategic role in trade and iron production.