Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains, providing new insights into life along the ancient trade route. “This changes everything we thought we knew.” ...

A survey has identified a "major" urban area in a mountainous area of Uzbekistan at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet.

We preselected all newsletters you had before unsubscribing.

an-overland trade route said to stretch ever since antiquity all the way across Asia from China to Turkey and hence to Mediterranean Europe. The show at the British Library is entitled A Silk Road ...

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 expansive exhibition, on view through February 23, looks at how commerce, ideas, and religion crisscrossed the world.

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 ...

A new LiDAR survey of previously discovered Silk Road sites reveals a more sprawling urban history than first imagined. An aerial survey of the Tashbulak and Tugunbulak sites in Uzbekistan uncovered ...