"We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia," he said ... and silk from China to the Middle East and Europe. The trade routes also acted as conduits for religions ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that ... Instead, it was a general network of trade routes that stretched between Europe ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing ... who led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western ...