Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade between China ... which dated back to the era between 1000-1400 CE. The two cities, Tugunbulak and ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

Ulbricht, 40, had been serving a life sentence on federal drug trafficking charges for setting up the illegal website.

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.