With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) projected for the class to see, review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students. Ask students to help map ...

The history of the Silk Road ... led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the modern-day Uzbekistan. Both were built over 2,000 ...

A thousand years ago, inhabitants of two mountain-top cities in modern-day Uzbekistan ... settlements along the Silk Road and beyond. "We could really change the map of urban development in ...

travelled to Kargil after finishing school in Skardu (modern-day Pakistan). At that time, Kargil was known as an important hub on the Treaty Road – a branch of the old Silk Road that connected ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained ... The researchers have also uncovered coins from across modern-day Uzbekistan, Maksudov says, suggesting the city may have been ...

As they write in the study, “To the naked eye, the modern surfaces ... change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just about ...

Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, in the mountains of Uzbekistan, were bustling medieval centers of Silk Road trade between ... of two mountain-top cities in modern-day Uzbekistan experienced these ...