The cities were found in a mountainous region – it’s unusual for settlements of this time to be at such high altitudes ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...

A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

A survey has identified a "major" urban area in a mountainous area of Uzbekistan at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet.

(Today less than 3 percent of the world's population ... Uzbekistan, but the researchers managed to get the necessary permits to fly one at the site. A lidar scanner uses laser pulses to map ...

with a population perhaps in the thousands, the researchers said, lasting from around 730-750 to 1030-1050 AD. Founded in early medieval times in what is now southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the ...