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Archaeologists Map Two Forgotten Medieval Cities That Flourished Along the Silk Road in the Mountains of Central AsiaHigh in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the ...
In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...
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 ...
The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood.
A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.
Researchers sent out LiDAR scanning technology, used to measure topography, on drones to map the ... Silk Road city Tugunbulak, located in the mountains of southeastern Uzbekistan (via REUTERS ...
File Photo Founded in early medieval times in what is now southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were eventually ... drone-based lidar remote scanning to map the scale and layout of the sites.
Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk ... on drones to map the scale and layout of the cities, uncovering structures, plazas, roads ...
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