Lasers reveal secrets of lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan
On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce.
Allison Parshall
Associate news editor at Scientific American
Allison Parshall is an associate news editor at Scientific American who often covers biology, health, technology and physics. She edits the magazine's Contributors column and weekly online Science Quizzes. As a multimedia journalist, Parshall contributes to Scientific American's podcast Science Quickly. Her work includes a three-part miniseries on music-making artificial intelligence. Her work has also appeared in Quanta Magazine and Inverse. Parshall graduated from New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute with a master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Georgetown University.
