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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 ...

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

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

As reported in Newsweek, a new aerial survey of Tashbulak and Tugunbulak—two archaeological sites roughly three miles apart in the Uzbekistan mountains—utilized LiDAR (a remote sensing technique that ...

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from the 6th to ...

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk ... The cities were discovered in the rugged mountains only 3km apart using laser remote-sensing ...

open image in gallery A 2018 drone photograph of a part of the newly discovered medieval Silk Road city Tugunbulak, located in the mountains of southeastern Uzbekistan (via REUTERS) Tugunbulak ...