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A kidnap victim in Plateau State, John Kwatsen ... led other operatives to a mountain in the locality and engaged the kidnappers in a gun duel and the victim was rescued eventually.

The archaeologists trekked along the riverbed and spotted burial sites along the way to the top of one of the mountains. Once there, a plateau dotted with strange mounds spread before them.

The team first discovered Tashbulak, the smaller city, in 2011 while trekking in the mountains. They found burial sites, thousands of pottery shards and other signs that the territory was populated.

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route ...

The mountain city’s fortress, flanked by a castle or palace, overlooked a town surrounded by defensive walls. Tashbulak covered roughly one-eighth the territory of Tugunbulak but was still a ...

But nomadic peoples had inhabited the area since the late Bronze age, and later perhaps settled these mountain plateaus as they looked to secure economic and political power in the region.

An isolated plateau in the highlands of southeastern Uzbekistan in Central Asia, looks like an expanse of rolling hills. But look closer and a shard of pottery or the stony remnant of an ancient ...

Tibetan women who have most successfully delivered children appear to have cardiovascular traits that help their bodies utilize the plateau's ... Yala Snow Mountain in Tibet Tagong.