The Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme ... The tennis-ball sized dumplings, called khinkali, hold a mixture of meat, spices, and herbs bursting with juice akin to their tinier ...

Text “Alerts” to (201) 335-0739 or sign up here. The Silk Road was an online marketplace where more than 100,000 users traded illegal drugs and other illegal goods while laundering hundreds of ...

Spices, ideas, religions, and, yes, even animals moved through the Silk Road that connected China, the Middle East, and Europe. Cats found their way into the heart of this trade system.

(Xi Jinping’s reaction was not recorded.) William Dalrymple does not deploy that Sanskrit phrase in “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.” But his audacious book’s aim ...

However, it was mined and traded along the Silk Road in antiquity, the researchers noted. China and Europe, the beginning and end of the Silk Road, were the two most significant cinnabar-producing ...

In 2011, Ulbricht, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, founded Silk Road, an online black market ... per cent since Trump’s election, and now traded at more than a hundred thousand dollars.) ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a full and unconditional pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the anonymous marketplace website Silk Road, which the president promised to do "on Day 1 ...

The self-declared "pro-crypto president" Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Tuesday. Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black ...

or indeed after any of the goods that travelled along the network like fur or spices or slaves. None of the traders who plied the route – or usually, bits of it – called it the Silk Road.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road ...