In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the ...

The cities were found in a mountainous region – it’s unusual for settlements of this time to be at such high altitudes ...

(Today less than 3 percent of the world's population ... Uzbekistan, but the researchers managed to get the necessary permits to fly one at the site. A lidar scanner uses laser pulses to map ...

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 ...

It is hardly common for cars to get shot up in Uzbekistan's capital ... and panic-inducing material among the population," ...

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

Lost for centuries, two cities lay buried, nearly 5 kilometers (3 miles) apart, underneath grassy pastures in the mountains of Uzbekistan ... 3% of the planet’s population lives at or above ...

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

with a population perhaps in the thousands, the researchers said, lasting from around 730-750 to 1030-1050 AD. Founded in early medieval times in what is now southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities ...