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

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.” ...

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

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

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...

It is difficult to find two countries that share as many similarities as Peru and China. As ancient civilizations both, they ...

The discovery led by Mr Maksudov, director of Uzbekistan's National Center of Archaeology and Michael Frachetti, an ...

“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.

"While typically seen as barriers to Silk Road trade and movement ... a factory where local metalsmiths turned rich deposits of iron ore into steel. The researchers also suggest the city's ...