Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in the 14th-century Catalan Atlas, would stop on ...

"While typically seen as barriers to Silk Road trade and movement ... "We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia," he said. The cities were thought to have been ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints ...

"Remnants of what is believed to be one of the largest medieval hospitals in the north of England have been found inside the ...

Languages: English, Spanish An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade ...

Plans have been submitted for an archaeological excavation on the site of a proposed relief road after medieval features were found. The documents state that a programme of archaeological ...

These medieval cities, located at an altitude of 2,000-2,200 meters above sea level, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous areas of the Silk Road. "We were quite surprised when ...

Historic remains believed to be part of one of the largest medieval hospitals in the north of England have been uncovered ...

Founded in early medieval times in what is now southeastern ... and rapidly spread in the successive centuries. The Silk Road enabled economic, cultural, religious and political exchanges between ...

Two medieval cities: Tugunbulak and Tashbulak US and Uzbekistan-based researchers used drone-based LiDAR — Light Detection and Ranging — to map the archeological sites of the two recently ...