After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...

Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

On January 22, the BBC reported that President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who was convicted in 2015 for operating the Silk Road dark web marketplace.

Ulbricht ran Silk Road under the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, a reference to a character in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. The marketplace itself took its name from the historic trade routes ...