Do you recall the first time you heard about Bitcoin? Perhaps you learned about it through media coverage of Silk Road, or a ...

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.

The Silk Road wasn’t a camel rut worn in the steppe ... colonial struggle for dominance in Central Asia called the Great Game. But my interest in the region stretches back earlier—to a ...

While tracing the ancient Silk Road through Central Asia on foot, National Geographic writer Paul Salopek was regaled with tales of these jinn. One night, under clear skies in the sprawling ...

On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...

Over 1,400 years ago, they found their way onto the legendary Silk Road by padding alongside merchants, traders, and explorers. So how did these whiskered animals hitch a ride on one of history's ...

Lasting barely three years, Silk Road triggered the largest cybercriminal manhunt in history. The FBI, DEA, IRS and Homeland Security were all after Ulbricht, whose real identity was hidden until ...