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On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been ...

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a discovery that could shift our understanding of the fabled Silk Road. Known for the exchange of goods and ideas between the East and West, the trade routes were long believed to have linked ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...

Hold the phone: if you’re new to the concept of sleeping in a silk hair wrap it’s time to ... head even if you’re a restless sleeper. The fabric has its own amino acids that pack your ...

“This changes everything we thought we knew.” Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

Trade must have been crucial for the success of this Silk Road community. Read the paper: Large-scale medieval urbanism traced by UAV–lidar in highland Central Asia During the heyday of the ...

bathes the space and night curtains that employ thicker fabrics to completely prevent any light from entering. (The latter is especially critical for how much light pollution Singapore has.) And like ...

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