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.” ...

Drones with lasers revealed hidden urban centers that may have aided trade and travel through mountainous regions during medieval times.

Read the paper: Large-scale medieval urbanism traced by UAV–lidar in highland Central Asia During the heyday of the medieval Silk Roads, cities emerged and existing ones flourished spanning the ...

Traders passed through large cities like Tehran or Baghdad ... one of the most influential city-states in medieval Italy. “The Silk Road was a complicated complex representing in some cases ...

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

The results of their research, published on Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, describe the two sites as “the largest and most comprehensive urban plans of any medieval city” in ...

The authors say Tugunbulak was one of the largest cities in central Asia during the early-medieval period. LiDAR maps created highly accurate maps of Tugunbulak and TashbulakImage: SAIElab ...

The authors say Tugunbulak was one of the largest cities in central Asia during the early-medieval period. "These would have ...

The medieval cities are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, the vast network of ancient trade routes that connected Europe and Eastern Asia. Images and ...

archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago. The team of researchers—led by Michael Frachetti, an archaeologist ...