It’s jinn. A few useful addenda to some standard Silk Road myths: It wasn’t a road. Less a highway, it was a diffuse web, a shifting skein of thousands of camel trails, mountain-pass ...

Join us as we retrace the route that inspired the Lonely Planet guidebooks. The days of Silk Road traders journeying between Europe and Asia were fading into history when, in the last half of the ...

The desire to trade was why the trail existed, not the romantic swapping of ideas and ethics, culture and creativity associated with the legendary Silk Road to the north. China had something Tibet ...

Trump previously promised he would free Ulbricht from his life sentence in prison back in May when Trump was on the campaign trail ... at least one so far. The Silk Road was a black market ...

How did Trump, who called on the campaign trail for using the death penalty ... to 1987 film The Princess Bride, set up the Silk Road online marketplace on the non-public “dark web” in 2011 ...

Samarkand’s Silk Road past is woven into its present. At Registan Square, once a bustling marketplace, researcher Armida Nazaryan explains its role as a trade hub between East and West.

From that modest start emerged Silk Trails, a company that makes silk boxer shorts that also serve as trail maps for many of North America's most popular ski areas. Next stop: the 2002 Olympics.