Silk Road Transported Goods--and Disease. A 2,000-year-old latrine in China provides the first hard evidence that people carried diseases long distances along the ancient trading route.

Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk ...

The Steppe Silk Road in the 10th to 12th Century" exhibition is officially about to open on July 11 at China National Silk ...

Every now and again, an exhibition comes along that is so epic in scale and astonishing in ambition that it transforms the ...

Although the use of the Silk Roads would rise and fall, Rome and Han China experienced two additional periods of intense trade. During China’s Tang dynasty, from A.D. 618 to 907 ...

The Silk Road itself was actually a number of different trade routes that, combined, serve to move goods from China to the Arabian Peninsula and farther west. Few merchants actually travelled the ...

For better or for worse, Silk Road has been a fixture in the Bitcoin economy ever since the currency first caught the attention of the mainstream media in early 2011. The service is an online black ...

The e-commerce website Silk Road is being called the Amazon of illegal drugs. Its goods include cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and marijuana. The products are delivered right through the mail to the ...

As Pakistan opens itself to China’s Silk Road plan and billions of dollars worth of investment projects, the head of the bank owned by the Abu Dhabi Group is warning of an influx of cheap goods ...

A federal jury has found Ross Ulbricht guilty of running Silk Road, an online drug bazaar described by prosecutors as the most sophisticated criminal marketplace on the Internet.