Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern ...

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

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...

an enormous fortified city dating back to a medieval empire. He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site, as well as the one he’d originally come to Uzbekistan to ...

China has released an updated map for a southern city, established to reinforce its claims in the South China Sea, showing ...

China released a new map for its southernmost city of Sansha as the country works to consolidate its control over the strategically important waters of the South China Sea. The city comprises two ...

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, researchers using new remote sensing technology have discovered a series of cities including a major medieval metropolis “hidden in plain site” above the ...

Mongolian leaders say they want to build a new city close to the ancient ruins of Kharkhorum and make it their new seat of ...

It is difficult to find two countries that share as many similarities as Peru and China. As ancient civilizations both, they ...

Lost for centuries, two cities ... and the Ancient World at Brown University in Rhode Island. But better known towns along the route such as Samarkand in Uzbekistan and Kashgar in China, were ...