But the latest study, which employed a remote sensing technique known as LiDAR that can reveal hidden archaeological features in a landscape, has revealed fascinating new ... Asia's Silk Road. A ...

The discovery, made possible by new drone-based lidar ... as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. For centuries, Silk Road historians have focused on ...

On conventional maps, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent were assumed to avoid the mountains of Central Asia. But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously ...

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements ... to create a three-dimensional map of the environment below.

New York and Munich. They had found an abandoned treasure trove – a collection that would soon become recognised as one of the finest family-owned collections of Silk Road artefacts in India ...

But in reality, traders “were dragging the caravans to the mountains,” as Maksudov tells the New ... map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road ...

Map of the world from al-Idrisi’s Nuzhat al ... The museum aims to “challenge and expand” traditional understandings of the Silk Road: “Rather than a single trade route, the Silk Roads ...

The Silk Road was never ... but the work does break new ground with its close textual analysis of so many original documents. Although trade on the road largely consisted of “impromptu exchanges ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network ... has revealed fascinating new insights ...