However, the newfound highland cities were too big to simply be trading posts or Silk Road stopovers ... information to create a three-dimensional map of the environment below.

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the ... as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. For centuries, Silk Road historians have focused on ...

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

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and ... who 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.

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road in a discovery that ... on drones to map the scale and layout of the cities, uncovering ...

“It would have taken us a decade to map such large sites manually.” Beneath this pasture is a 1,000-year-old buried city. Photo: Michael Frachetti The research proves that the Silk Road did ...

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham ... They deployed drone-based lidar remote scanning to map the scale and layout of the sites.