Few trade routes in history have had as big an impact on the course of the world's development as the Silk Road. One of the longest, most enduring and famous roads did much more than transport silk ...

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...

Ross Ulbricht—who was serving a life sentence over a conviction for running a dark web illicit drug market before being pardoned by President Donald Trump—says more clemency is needed, arguing that ...

The forum is hosted by the WIC and co-organized by the Fujian Provincial Government, with support from the Quanzhou Municipal ...

Silk Road used an underground computer network known as "The Onion Router" or "Tor" that relays computer messages through at least three separate computer servers to disguise its users.

Update at 4:00 p.m. ET: At least two more sites were also seized. Read the full accounting of what we know about the operation so far. A year after the Silk Road 2 came online promising to revive ...

Silk Road 2.0 charged commissions ranging from 5% to 8% per transaction, amounting to about $400,000 per month, court papers say. When hackers hit Silk Road's bitcoin escrow account Sept. 10 and ...

The Silk Road was torn down by a massive law enforcement operation in late 2013, leading to the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, the site's creator, who was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay ...

Silk Road 2.0, which looks exactly like the old Silk Road, was supposed to be better, safer, more secure. An undisclosed number of "staff" had supposedly implemented new security protocols ...

The 14th Silk Road International Music Festival will be held from July 4 to 6 in Shaki, one of Azerbaijan's ancient centres ...