Western authorities call it the Silk Road, after the ancient trade network ... the one with all the windows shrouded in black plastic. The woman who answers the door won't give her first name ...

Researchers have now with full credibility established that the Black Death or the Bubonic Plague originated in China and arrived at different parts of the world through the Silk Road. Not once ...

June 15 (Reuters) - Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route ... as the launching point for the Black Death that killed tens of millions ...