Ancient silk paintings dating to China's Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which ...

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

Taicang in Jiangsu province unveiled a series of events on Tuesday to honor the 620th anniversary of Zheng He's legendary ...

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.

The girl’s father is surnamed Zheng. Star Video reported that he took the video at an animal shelter in China’s Fujian province last month. [2] Burmese pythons are carnivores, and they use ...

A plaque erected to mark the opening of a new electronic library at the Attorney General’s Department was removed because the writing thereon was only in Sinhala and English, and Tamil had been left ...

During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Ma Huan, a Chinese explorer and translator who accompanied Admiral Zheng He on his overseas voyages, recorded that a fruit called "du'er yan" had a strong ...

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 ...