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

director of Uzbekistan’s National Center of Archaeology—found evidence of the cities during foot surveys before scanning the land with lidar equipment attached to drones. The settlements ...

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

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 ...

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.” ...

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road in a discovery ... used ...

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

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 ...

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.

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk ... on drones to map the scale and layout of the cities, uncovering structures, plazas, roads ...