The Silk Road wasn’t a single road, but a vast network of land and sea trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean.

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.

These traders had to eat on the go, and the foods they brought with them were the ancient-world equivalent of instant ramen ...

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 ...

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 ...

An officer with Britain's National Crime Agency who stole cryptocurrency from the operator of an illegal dark web marketplace ...

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.