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 ...

Tashbulak, the smaller of the two rediscovered towns, takes up about 12 hectares. The second one, Tugunbulak, was 10 times bigger - "making it one of the largest regional cities of its time ...

Yes, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road dark web marketplace The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among ...

Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, will spend much of the rest of his life in prison for his key role in building the world’s first dark-web drug market.

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 ...

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 ...

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This 21st-century “silk route” is most clearly symbolized by the newly inaugurated rail-link between Istanbul and Baku – dubbed the “Iron Silk Road” – which parallels the even more ...

The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind US ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds of years ago.