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 ...

Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...

Technology enables scientists to measure and discover things that would be impossible to find without it, like these lost ...

used drone-based lidar to map the archaeological scale and layout of two recently discovered high-elevation sites in Uzbekistan. The medieval cities are among the largest ever documented in the ...

Lost for centuries, two cities lay buried, nearly 5 kilometers (3 miles) apart, underneath grassy pastures in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Now, archaeologists for the first time have ...

The core of Russia was the principality of Muscovy—what is today the city of Moscow. From the 13th-19th centuries ... as in ...

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

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

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