Indonesia held events to commemorate the 618th anniversary of the arrival during the voyages of Chinese Ming Dynasty navigator Zheng He on Saturday, in Semarang City, the capital of Central Java ...

More than 6,000 people, including a Ming dynasty princess, are buried in Bukit Cina, which was established more than 600 years ago by Zheng He, the Chinese admiral, diplomat and maritime explorer.

1421, The Year China Discovered The World, a controversial book published in 2003 outlining the voyages of Zheng He during the time of Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), made Gavin ...

(The Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall. Find out if it worked.) Ming vase from 1431, of the type traded during Zheng He’s seven voyages. GRANGER/AGE FOTOSTOCK Yongle was the third Ming emperor ...

domesticated brown rats may have spread by stowing away on ships used by admiral Zheng He during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The expeditions involved tens of thousands of men and hundreds of ...

As early as the end of Zheng He’s first voyage in 1407, the Ming dynasty began replacing its winter allowances of cloth and cotton to soldiers in and around Beijing with sappanwood; by 1424, part of ...

A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from the 16th century ... is a staggering rise in prices in this field,” he said. “You have all this new wealth in China and very high net worth ...