Datong, located in north China's Shanxi Province, is fast becoming a premier cultural destination for international travelers ...

The deadline for UNESCO's 7th International Photography Contest, "Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads," has been extended, Azernews ...

Editor’s Note: The Astana Times continues its Forgotten Cities of the Silk Road series, exploring Kazakhstan’s tentative ...

ASTANA — Beneath the streets of modern-day Turkistan lies the ancient settlement of Yassy-Turkistan, an archaeological ...

Artifacts From Two Ancient Shipwrecks Shed Light on Legacy of Maritime Silk Trade Route During Ming Dynasty Many individuals ...

Federal shut-down of Silk Road was only speed bump, report says. This frame grab from the Silk Road website shows thumbnails for products allegedly available through the site. On Oct. 1, 2013, FBI ...

Silk Road first launched in 2011 as an underground website where users could browse anonymously for drugs. They paid in a hard-to-track cyber currency called Bitcoin.

A posting on the Silk Road site under the alias "DPR" on Oct. 19, 2011, about a site outage, explained Silk Road's operations: "We lease server space in different locations around the globe ...

His Silk Road site is only accessible via the hidden browser Tor, the self-described “network of virtual tunnels” that enables internet anonymity to its thousands of daily users through 3,000 ...