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Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered with groundbreaking tech
Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains, providing new insights into life along the ancient trade route. “This changes everything we thought we knew.”
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. The ruins of the ancient city of Tugunbulak cover nearly 300 acres, making it one of the largest regional settlements of its time, according to a paper published today in Nature and based on research funded by the National Geographic Society. For centuries, Silk Road historians have focused on the nomadic tribes and lowland empires that dominated the Uzbekistan region, often painting the highlands as marginal or peripheral to life in the valleys below.
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