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Two lost medieval Silk Road cities mapped in Central Asia
The authors say Tugunbulak was one of the largest cities in central Asia during the early-medieval period. LiDAR maps created highly accurate maps of Tugunbulak and TashbulakImage: SAIElab ...
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Central Asia: An emerging battlefield for strategic minerals
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Silk Road cities reached surprising heights in Central Asia’s mountains
Two high-altitude, medieval cities built by mobile herders along Silk Road trade routes in Central Asia have been hiding ... in the 8th century. Lidar maps of surface-level ridges in the soil ...
The New York Times24d
Ancient Cities Unearthed in Mountains of Central Asia
He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site ... comprehensive urban plans of any medieval city” in Central Asia situated at high altitude (defined here as about ...
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Lost Silk Road Cities Discovered High in the Mountains of Central Asia
Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...
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How a drab Soviet metropolis became Central Asia’s capital of cool
Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved from a drab, run-of-the-mill Soviet metropolis into the urban star of Central Asia. Along the ...
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Archaeologists Map Two Forgotten Medieval Cities That Flourished Along the Silk Road in the Mountains of Central Asia
“These would have been important urban hubs in central Asia ... “We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn ...