The Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme. From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions flowed between this overland trade route connecting the Far East, China ...

"That was a strong theme of Silk Road and I think that has played into the sorts of people that Donald Trump has been trying to get on-side during his campaign to become president.

Silk Road/Westlake meals are always presumed to be family style, and the bill at Westlake came out to $18 each, $3 more than the highest we’d ever paid at the Road.

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 ...

The Silk Road has a new stop in Union Market. Indian chef Sanjay Mandhaiya, the creative force behind 14th Street’s Pappe, unveils an all-new culinary endeavor across town on Thursday, June 19.

Christopher Wilton-Steer A version of this article appears in print on July 27, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Up Close / ‘The Silk Road,’ by Christopher Wilton-Steer.

‘Stag Hunt’ (ca. 1120) by Huang Zongdao. Photo: Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1982 Mention of the Silk Road transports many of us to a time of legend.

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Trump, who first proposed to pardon the Silk Road creator ...

Hiding in plain sight Two cities have been found in Central Asia along what was formerly the Silk Road, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered by drones sent searching for their secrets. For ...