The 700,000 pieces — fine bowls, dishes and cups made during the reign of the Ming... Ming-era Chinese porcelain to be retrieved from shipwreck San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

They had porcelain and logs onboard. World 500-year-old ... Experts determined that the first shipwreck dates to the Zhengde period of the Ming dynasty — which lasted from 1506 until 1521.

Underwater archaeologists in China have recovered more than 900 artifacts from two merchant vessels that sank to the bottom of the South China Sea during the Ming dynasty. The ships are located ...

A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from the 16th century have sold for £9.6 million ($12.5 million) at auction, smashing their estimate of £1 million ($1.3 million). The porcelain jars ...

A visitor examines porcelains from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) during a three-month exhibition at the Palace Museum in Beijing in June. The porcelains on display are both perfect samples and ...

HAINAN PROVINCE, CHINA—The Guardian reports that two shipwrecks dated to the Ming Dynasty have been discovered nearly 5,000 feet underwater and about 12 miles apart in the South China Sea. One ...

In 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sailed around Africa to India. ... In this work, from about 1500, Mantegna depicts a Ming porcelain cup as one of the gifts the wise men bring.

While porcelain is beautiful, a Renaissance painting like this embodies all the reasons the west came to believe itself superior — a more ambitious, more intellectual way of seeing the world. A ...

Chinese archaeologists are due to begin searching for the remains of a Chinese ship believed to have sunk off the Kenyan coast 600 years ago.