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 ...
Much of this music is yet to be digitised and remains ... And, perhaps fittingly, the spirit of these Silk Road melodies feels timeless enough to be played in an Ashgabat caravanserai as well ...
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 ...
Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, in the mountains of Uzbekistan, were bustling medieval centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone ...
The capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, recently hosted an exhibition and panel titled "Heritage Beyond Time: The Silk Road," organized by the Lodge Human and Civilization Movement. This important event ...
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 ...
An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...