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Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered with groundbreaking tech
- ChumpGPT 2y agohttp://archive.today/bSSLb http://archive.today/bSSLb
- onecommentman 2y agoCan’t read without giving email, but if they’re using remote sensing techniques, then the whole point is the tech is not groundbreaking, since they aren’t breaking any ground (e.g. digging).
- defrost 2y agoLeading paragraphs: Researchers have discovered the remains of medieval cities perched above the ancient Silk Road in the rugged mountains of southeastern Uzbekistan. One of them is a sprawling, high-altitude metropolis that lay hidden for centuries, in a place where few expected to find signs of ancient civilizations. The discovery, made possible by new drone-based lidar technology, challenges long-held assumptions about urban life in the remote mountains of Central Asia more than a thousand years ago. The groundbreaking research, led by National Geographic Explorer Michael Frachetti and Farhod Maksudov, director of Uzbekistan's National Center of Archaeology, reveals a bustling city that thrived between the 6th and 11th centuries. Situated at altitudes reaching up to 7,200 feet (comparable to Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes), this discovery sheds new light on the complexity, scale, and elevation of medieval societies along the Silk Road, the vast network of ancient trade routes that connected Europe and Eastern Asia.
- beardyw 2y agoIf you are in the UK the British Museum has a great exhibition about the Silk Road.