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 ...

Donald Trump promised to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online illegal drug marketplace Silk Road, in a raucous speech before the Libertarian National Convention on ...

A “mixed” memoirist’s Silk Road travelogue becomes a road map to sanctuary. ... ‘The White Mosque,’ finds her on the Silk Road, site of an earlier pilgrimage of Mennonites. (Jim C. Hines) ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

A high-speed train network opened in 2011 and is now being expanded to include the ancient Silk Road stop of Khiva, simplifying travel to UNESCO World Heritage Sites from the capital city, Tashkent.

East-West trade is booming across the Caucasus and many are hailing it as the latest incarnation of the Silk Road or Great Silk Route, the overland supply chain that allowed the supply of Chinese ...

If you ask me, as an archeologist, the foundations of Silk Road can be traced back to the Bronze Age. But the peak of this exchange we date to the medieval period, between the 6th century and the ...