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erronis

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Wed Nov 6, 2024, 01:22 PM Nov 6

Researchers Discover Enormous Ancient Cities Hidden in Uzbekistan's Mountains [View all]

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-enormous-ancient-cities-hidden-in-uzbekistans-mountains/


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 drone-based lidar in Central Asia has enabled archaeologists to uncover details of two newly discovered medieval trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

The team used this cutting-edge technology to map the archaeological scale and layout of the cities, which are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, a broad network of ancient trade routes that connected Europe and Eastern Asia.

The research, led by Michael Frachetti, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and Farhod Maksudov, director of the National Center of Archaeology in Uzbekistan, was recently published in Nature.


Just because today is the day after the US elections, I thought I would add "Maybe some day a more advanced civilization will discover some artifacts left by a culture of open-minded, critical thinkers that had apparently been obliterated by hostile forces."

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