A pair of lost cities in the highlands of Uzbekistan recently found by archaeologists using lidar demonstrate that the bounty of the Silk Road trade was so lucrative, it allowed urban populations to flourish without agriculture to support them. Tugunbulak and Tashbulak were two mountain settlements that flourished between the 8th and 11th centuries CE […]

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