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

Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains, providing new insights into life along the ancient trade route. “This changes everything we thought we knew.” ...

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements ... were built to exploit abundant iron ore found underground in the region.

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern ...

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, playing a strategic role in trade and iron production.

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

"While typically seen as barriers to Silk Road trade and movement ... a factory where local metalsmiths turned rich deposits ...

The researchers are working to confirm steel was made there by chemically analyzing slag - a byproduct of iron and steel production ... centuries. The Silk Road enabled economic, cultural ...