Editor’s Note: Sumnima Udas is CNN’s presenter of ‘The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future’, an epic journey from east to west along the ancient trade route, exploring how traditional culture ...

Named after the historical network of trade routes that connected Europe and Asia, the Silk Road was an online black market founded in February 2011 by the pseudonymous “Dread Pirate Roberts ...

The earliest records for "Silk Road" trade date to around 200 BC, meaning that for centuries before that, these same paths were used by groups looking for places to graze. Finding the best path ...

But Silk Road was just one site, and there are a few others that are trying to be Silk Road 2.0: here are The Best Alternatives to Silk Road. Oh, and don't do drugs. RELATED: 15 Things You Could ...

The Silk Road operated on the Tor network, an anonymous collection of sites that exist in semi-secrecy, outside of the scope of Google, Facebook, and even conventional web browsers.

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 silk road had more than 900,000 registered users, and purchases were made involving 146,946 individual buyer accounts. There were 3,877 unique vendor accounts.

Late Tuesday night, Silk Road, known as the eBay of drugs, was taken down by the FBI, ending a two-year run as the go-to place for illegal goods in the darkest corner of the Internet. Seriously ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in ...