The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected civilizations ...

Researchers excavate medieval pottery at the newly rediscovered medieval Silk Road city Tugunbulak ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in northeastern Kyrgyzstan, high in the Tien Shan mountains, the lake sits at an ...

Archaeologists have discovered a drowned medieval city beneath the waters of a salt lake in northeast Kyrgyzstan. The location was an important stop on one of the Silk Roads between China and the West ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers excavate medieval pottery at the newly rediscovered medieval Silk Road city Tugunbulak in 2022 (via REUTERS) The ...

An international archaeological expedition has discovered the underwater ruins of a medieval city on the Silk Road in Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. This was reported on December 6 on the New Atlas ...

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Oct 23 (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route ...

Smelting was done with charcoal that in this case could have been made and transported from another site. Easier than 'hauling trees' to the smelting site. Click to expand... The only problem with ...