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

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road in a discovery ... used ...

(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 ...

with a population perhaps in the thousands, the researchers said, lasting from around 730-750 to 1030-1050 AD. Founded in ...

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

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

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 ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds ...

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

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

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 ...