By 2011, he launched Silk Road, having been described as a "freewheeling, free market site" at the time. The site allowed users to deal with cryptocurrency anonymously. Bitcoin was the primary ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

As her journey to China's Gansu Province concludes, Xinhua reporter Maria Alekseeva remains captivated by the 1,600-year-old ...

Silk Road used ‘anonymity layers,’ digital currency ... market for illegal drugs known as Silk Road and arrested the site's alleged mastermind, Ross Ulbricht. Cordelia Lynch of International ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to make first public appearance since pardon at upcoming Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road (DSR), China’s ambitious initiative to shape critical digital infrastructure around the world to advance its geopolitical interests and ...

Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 visitor slots per day. The Shengjinkou site has 13 caves dating back to the ...