“Archaeologists may have found The Lost Iron City of The Silk Road.”
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Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.com).
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| The Tugunbulak settlement was inhabited between the 6th and 11th centuries. (Simon Norfolk) | |
Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan |
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| Researchers are uncovering what they think is the metropolis of Marsmanda, an iron-making city that could rewrite the history of the famed trade route | |
| By Andrew Lawler Photographs by Simon Norfolk |
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