Today at the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old Texan accused of running the Silk Road's contraband bazaar, prosecutors called to the stand Michael Duch, a 40-year-old Silk Road heroin dealer ...

Robert, a 20-year-old student in West Virginia who sold Xanax and Adderall on the old Silk Road and has been watching the rebirth closely, told Newsweek he's suspicious about how much faster Silk ...

All said, “Old Silk Road” is a compelling account of what war feels like, reading like a dying man’s dream, with its end bringing both blissful release and genuine remorse.

A cemetery dating back roughly 1,700 years has been discovered along part of the Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes that once connected China to the Roman Empire.

From historic mosques to cutting-edge startups, Tashkent is fast becoming a capital of contrasts — where centuries-old tradition sits alongside modern tech and architecture in Central Asia’s rising ...

In 2013, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road initiative and essentially branded the emerging New Silk Road as a Chinese endeavor. ... This article is more than 8 years old.

The South Asian part of the old Silk Road is not shown in this map at all, for example. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is perhaps one of the most measurable, ...

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle Kingdom In the customs hangar where our minibus is being held on the border ...

Above the clouds, we followed a trail on the old Silk Road high into the Himalayas. We were in India's Sikkim state heading towards China on a road which, until now, led only to a dead end. At 14,500 ...