Ancient China: Satellite and Drone Imagery of Prehistoric Silk Road Corridor Reveals Long-Lost Irrigation Network
By Kastalia Medrano On 1/3/18 at 12:34 PM
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient irrigation system in northwestern China that explains how the region’s herding communities were able grow crops in one of the driest climates anywhere in the world. The system, dated to around the 3rd or 4th century A.D. and lost for centuries, lies in the foothills of the Tian Shan Mountains—part of the central corridor of the prehistoric Silk Road.
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-china-irrigation-system-traveled-silk-road-corridor-satellite-drone-769482
