The Belt and Road can help achievepeace that few ever did believecould be attained within our timeand help the world to reach its primeAn American ...

Nor was China, the alleged terminus of the Silk Roads in most versions of its conception, ever the main destination of ...

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 of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in the 14th-century Catalan Atlas, would stop on ...

Toshiyuki Nishida, a Japanese Academy Award-winning actor known for his roles in The Silk Road and the Tsuribaka Nisshi ...

Kattar and his group were particularly enticed by the rich culture of the 2,000-year-old Kashgar, once a trading hub on the ...

Drone lidar technology discovered the lost Silk Road cities of Uzbekistan as ancient trade hubs high in the mountains.

The discovery led by Mr Maksudov, director of Uzbekistan's National Center of Archaeology and Michael Frachetti, an ...

Two cities that flourished as part of the Silk Road have been mapped though drone-borne LiDAR, revealing them as two of the largest cities on the mountainous part of that world-changing path ...

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

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements. “It’s winter there already. It’s freezing cold. We get snow in summer.

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood. By Alexander Nazaryan Michael Frachetti was on an archaeological dig high in the ...