However, the newfound highland cities were too big to simply be trading posts or Silk Road stopovers ... information to create a three-dimensional map of the environment below.

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities ... maps. Lidar scans reveal the city walls and defensive fortifications that once stood in Tugunbulak, a recently discovered medieval city along the Silk ...

Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan ... other high-altitude settlements along the Silk Road and beyond. "We ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities ... Silk Road, a vast network of trade routes that spanned from China to the Mediterranean. On conventional maps ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities ... map such large sites manually.” Beneath this pasture is a 1,000-year-old buried city. Photo: Michael Frachetti The research proves that the Silk ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, researchers using new remote sensing technology have discovered a series of cities including a major medieval metropolis “hidden in plain site” above the ...

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham ... They deployed drone-based lidar remote scanning to map the scale and layout of the sites.