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

A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are “among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road,” according ... have taken us a decade to map such large sites ...

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.” ...

LiDAR maps created ... in St. Louis, US, who led the research. The two cities were likely important trading centers and fortresses protecting merchants traveling along the Silk Road, the authors ...

"The results are encouraging, as several cities are showing initiative in terms of their residents' safety," the researchers told Newsweek.

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements ... America. During the heyday of the medieval Silk Roads, cities emerged ...

Newsweek's map of the "greenest" cities is based on a recent report from WalletHub. To determine its rankings, the report compared America's 100 largest cities across four dimensions—environment ...

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...