Suddenly, you have not just Xuanzang, but his biographer ... He argues that what we know as the Silk Road today is, in fact, a modern idea. “One of the things that happens with historians ...

First described in the seventh century by Chinese monk Xuanzang as “ruins of red stone,” its origins ... Situated along the Great Silk Road, it featured a fortified citadel, a shahristan (urban center ...

Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for creating the darknet market Silk Road, is free. Ulbricht is a freedom fighter to some, and a dangerous criminal to ...

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President Trump did not pardon or commute the prison sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the anonymous marketplace website Silk Road, despite his promise on the campaign trail to free him on ...

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Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan ...

Fresh off receiving a “full and unconditional pardon” from President Trump, sparing him from two life sentences, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was spotted in a new photograph smiling broadly ...

US President Donald Trump has given a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who has been in prison for 12 years for founding the defunct darknet marketplace the Silk Road. “I just called the mother of ...

Researchers Decode the Genetic Profile of the Sogdians, Reveals the Origins of the Silk Road Merchants A new study by ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts ...

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous dark web exchange Silk Road, which was best known as a once-thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs.