Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered with groundbreaking tech. ... a remote sensing method that uses reflected light to create detailed 3-dimensional maps. ... political systems, and cultures.

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...

They deployed drone-based lidar remote scanning to map the scale and ... in the successive centuries. The Silk Road enabled economic, cultural, religious and political exchanges between East ...

A few years later, in 2022, Frachetti’s team was ready to map ... political entity. Their power and their influence must have been significant in the broader economy of the Silk Road ...

“The final high-res maps were a composite ... in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just about the endpoints of China and the West,” he adds. “Major political forces were at play ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered by drones sent searching for their secrets. For ...