After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other ...

“The Silk Road was a complicated complex representing ... A few years later, in 2022, Frachetti’s team was ready to map this new, potentially interesting area with the latest piece of tech ...

On conventional maps, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent were assumed to avoid the mountains of Central Asia. But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously ...

“We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just about the endpoints of China and the West,” he adds.

The world famous Silk Road possesses wonderful landscapes that if you are a travel enthusiast, you should definitely not miss ...

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements ... to create a three-dimensional map of the environment below.

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham ... They deployed drone-based lidar remote scanning to map the scale and layout of the sites.