The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval ... who led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the modern ...

this second Sodom in the desert” and believed, erroneously, that it was some 2,000 years old. (In Tajikistan, discover the ruins of a once mighty Silk Road kingdom.) Hedin poses alongside a ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...

“We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just about the endpoints of China and the West,” he adds.

A map produced by the remote sensing technique called LiDAR shows Tugunbulak, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan. The medieval settlement was located along Central Asia's Silk Road. A map ...

A site where ancient cotton and silk fabrics were uncovered in the Arava Desert. Photo courtesy of University of Haifa The Silk Road was the main trading route that was used for the movement of exotic ...

Both have as their theme the idea of the Silk Road, an-overland trade route said to stretch ever ... then swaying their way over the sand dunes of the Gobi desert. It is also an idea that breaks open ...