The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting ... who led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of ...

Louis, and Farhod Maksudov, director of Uzbekistan’s National Center of Archaeology—found evidence of the cities during ... change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says ...

A new study published October 23 in the journal Nature has revealed that the two cities — Tugunbulak and Tashbulak — were major urban centers that lay on medieval Silk Road trading routes.

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Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central ... as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. For centuries, Silk Road historians ...

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"We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia," he said. The cities were thought to have been constructed around 1000 CE during the time of the Qarakhanid Empire.

The researchers used remote-sensing technology to map what they describe as a sprawling, nearly 300-acre medieval city three miles from Tashbulak that was integrated into the network of trade ...

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Historical records allude to cities in the region, he said, but the team did not expect to find a 12-hectare medieval city some 2,200m above sea level. “We were kind of blown away,” Mr ...

The first use of drone-based lidar in Central Asia has enabled archaeologists to uncover details of two newly discovered medieval trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. The team used this ...