Hou Yanghong, a 37-year-old inheritor of the intangible heritage of Dunhuang stone powder painting, was originally from north ...

A new LiDAR survey of previously discovered Silk Road sites reveals a more sprawling urban history than first imagined. An ...

A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

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.” ...

Interaction with locals provides insights into the region's cultural heritage, as horseback riding transports you into the ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

Along the ancient trail of the Silk Road, the long-distance Eurasian trade route that connected Europe and the Middle East with China from the second century BC to around 1450 AD, archaeologists have ...

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

The new research could change history's understanding of the sprawling trade network that connected Europe and the Middle ...

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road in a discovery that ...

The first use of drone-based lidar in Central Asia revealed details of two newly discovered trade cities in the mountains of ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds ...