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The Silk Road wasn’t a single road, but a vast network of land and sea trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean.

The Silk Road's libertarian free-trade zone has devolved into a fragmented, less ethical, and far less trusted collection of scam-ridden black markets. Skip to main content.

Ross Ulbricht, the convicted mastermind behind the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in a New York courtroom on Friday. During the 2.5 hour-long session, the court heard ...

When completed, like the ancient Silk Road, it will connect three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa. The chain of infrastructure projects will create the world's largest economic corridor ...

The dark web has only grown in the years since the FBI seized the Silk Road’s servers and arrested its creator in late 2013. At that time, the site had roughly 12,000 listings, for items ranging ...

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 ...

Silk Road was an online black market bazaar where visitors could buy and sell hard drugs Sales were in bitcoins%2C an independent form of online cash FBI nabbed site mastermind Ross Ulbricht at a ...

Silk Road 2, a replacement for the notorious online drug bazaar that went dark in October of 2013, has been seized in a joint action involving the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, ...

One is Silk Road founder Dread Pirate Roberts, who the FBI claim is currently in their custody. The other is Satoshi Nakamoto, the still-unidentified creator of Bitcoin.

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have ...

Tests on a nearly-complete cat skeleton – a rare find – discovered on the Silk Road in southern Kazakhstan revealed that cats may have been pets for nomadic herders in the area.