Islamic conquests from the eighth century replaced Brahmi-derived scripts with Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

These realities do not mar Lahore’s five spreads in THE SILK ROAD: A Living History (Hemeria, $55), a sometimes beautiful travelogue of landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once ...

The National Museum of Kazakhstan has become a beacon of cultural exchange with the opening of the 'Silk and the Silk Road: From China to Kazakhstan' exhibition. Coinciding with Kazakhstan's 'China ...

Along the old rocky road, we pass hundreds of excavators, cement mixers and steam rollers in the process of constructing a giant new road. The scale of the operation is enormous.

But the site was notorious for selling vast swathes of drugs.) Ulbricht created the Silk Road site, accessible only using specific software that could connect to the dark web, in January 2011.

Silk Road provided an early use case for bitcoin—the untraceable currency flowed through the platform and allowed the sale of illicit goods to flourish internationally. It didn’t last long.

“Back to the Silk Road” is performed at the Xinjiang Great Theater on April 24, 2019. [Photo by Hujjatullah Zia] I was filled with an outpouring of nostalgia for the ancient Silk Road as charming ...

Grogan also acknowledged that the funds were not part of the more than 100,000 BTC seized by the U.S. authorities during Silk Road’s 2013 shutdown. He noted the wallets had grown substantially due to ...

Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the Mahayaha practice when the expansion of Buddhism crossed the Silk Road ...

In October 2013, the FBI shut down Silk Road, a now-defunct marketplace that allowed users to anonymously buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services using bitcoin. The site made about ...

Less than two months after receiving a pardon from US President Donald Trump, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht attended a March 4 joint session of Congress. After being in prison for more than 11 ...