Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

A survey has identified a "major" urban area in a mountainous area of Uzbekistan at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet.

A new LiDAR survey of previously discovered Silk Road sites reveals a more sprawling urban history than first imagined. An ...

Coming in 2025, the Golden Eagle Silk Road Express offers all new adventures along the storied Silk Road trading route.

This he named die Seidenstrassen, the Silk Roads. It was not until 1938 that the term Silk Road appeared in English, as the title of a popular book by a Nazi-sympathizing Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin.

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 ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern ...

“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.

Hellenistic Civilization and the Silk Road, via video during the book's signing ceremony for the production of an English ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan using drones and LiDAR. The fabled cities had lain buried under mountain pastures for centuries. Light detection and ...

(see related story on Xi's visit) Beijing, March 22 - Premier Giuseppe Conte has said the memorandum of understanding his government is set to sign for Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative is part ...

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have ...