As an archaeologist enamored with mountain history, I needed to learn more, so two years later, I found myself on the Zoji La in the footsteps of Silk Road traders who, like us, hoped to make it ...

The ruins of the ancient city of Tugunbulak ... as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. For centuries, Silk Road historians have focused on the nomadic ...

New detection technologies have helped a team of American and Uzbekistani researchers map a pair of cities that were once part of the ancient Silk Road trade route across Asia. Aerial light ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered ... On conventional maps, trade routes spanning ...

Trade routes have been the lifeblood of civilizations for thousands of years, connecting cultures, economies, and people across continents. This video offers a detailed map-based summary of the ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval ... who led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the modern ...

Dunhuang was a major stop on the ancient Silk Road, established in an oasis that contains Crescent ... Sanskrit became the lingua franca in much of Asia and left a permanent mark on the map from Balkh ...

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than ... He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site, as well as the one he’d ...

The Silk Road was never really a road at all ... trail have helped preserve some of the greatest treasure troves of the ancient world, increasing our understanding of dozens of cultures.