These posts suggested that Palawan was originally called Zheng He Island, named after a Chinese explorer who conducted ...

NHCP handout photo MANILA — Posts calling Palawan as "Zheng He Island" on Chinese social media apps are inaccurate, as the Chinese explorer it was allegedly named after travelled to seas west of ...

One of the most striking symbols of East-West maritime connection is the bronze bust of Chinese explorer Zheng He (1371-1433), prominently displayed alongside ...

In the early 15th Century, the Ming dynasty’s Yongle Emperor dispatched an unprecedented series of naval expeditions to the Indian Ocean. Commanding them was a eunuch admiral known as Zheng He.

Chinese navigator and explorer Zheng He (1371-1433) led the world's largest fleet on seven voyages to the West 620 years ago, leaving an indelible mark on the history of human navigation.

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded ... rest of the world while the treasure ship fleets of explorer Zheng He ruled the oceans. The artwork could be the earliest ...

Zheng He's ships, as depicted in a Chinese woodblock print thought to date to the early 17 th century. Treasure junks: fact or fiction? The Ming account of the voyages that followed strains ...

On one journey, 317 of these ships set sail at once. Under the command of the eunuch admiral Zheng He, the Chinese were routinely sailing to Africa and back decades before Columbus was even born.

From a young girl in a small village near Shanghai to one of the most consequential physicists of the 20th century, Wu was often overlooked.