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 Ethiopia.

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Ulbricht was 29-years-old when he was arrested in 2013 for creating a website called the Silk Road, which became a black market for narcotics, weapons, and other illegal goods. Julia Vie saw her ...

After two and a half years running the booming anonymous narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road, the drug kingpin who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts has allegedly been unmasked. On Wednesday ...

Reviving and building connectivity across the Eurasian landmass based on the commercial networks of the ancient Silk Road underpins one of the key economic goals of the Asian continent. Asian nations ...

Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road were traversed by Marco Polo, the foundations for these trans-Asian interaction networks were being carved by ...

China’s ancient capital of Chang’an (today known as Xi’an) is the start of one of Unesco’s world heritage “Silk Roads” routes. Credit: Xi’an image via Shutterstock.com Subscribe for ads-free reading ...

It's not every day federal authorities get to bust a case like this. It involves millions of dollars, illicit drugs and a would-be assassin, all of which allegedly were bought and sold on the Internet ...

The clerk read each of the guilty verdicts, seven of them, while standing next to a large window that framed the Brooklyn Bridge in thin winter sunlight. That panoramic view will be one of the last ...

Silk Road%27s operator and his customers thought the site was impenetrable The feds used both digital and traditional sleuthing The site was an online bazaar for drugs%2C guns and porn Criminals who ...

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Finding omens of American decline on a long walk across Asia. By Paul Salopek Mr. Salopek, a writer for National Geographic, is at work on a book about his journey around the world. YANGON, Myanmar — ...