Commanding them was a eunuch admiral known as Zheng He. Underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio's team was exploring the wreckage of a 13th-century Chinese junk off the coast of the Philippines ...

A complex, multi-talented character, Zheng He rose from slave to top naval commander, diplomat, and world explorer. Background. Born into a Chinese Muslim family in Yunnan, Zheng He's birth name ...

Even in our 21st century of supertankers and cruise ships lit like floating cities, Zheng He’s treasure fleet still inspires awe. More than 300 vessels with some 30,000 men sailed in the first ...

Zheng He's ships, as depicted in a Chinese woodblock print thought to date to the early 17th century Courtesy of Instructional Resources Corporation, www.historypictures.com ...

Ancient Chinese Explorers by Evan Hadingham In 1999, New York Times journalist Nicholas D. Kristof reported a surprising encounter on a tiny African island called Pate, just off the coast of Kenya.

It would be easy to assume, as many do, that the English word “junk” comes from Chinese ... and Zheng He’s 15th-century Indian Ocean expeditions had the largest ships and fleets. ...

Zheng He is seen to embody the spirit of Chinese exploration and diplomacy. ( ABC News ) He was born Ma He in 1371 in China's southern Yunnan province to parents from the ethnic Hui minority, who ...

Spreading Chinese goods and prestige, Zheng He commanded seven voyages that established China as Asia's strongest naval power in the 1400s.

A statue of Zheng He in the Malaysian Chinese Museum in Seri Kembangan, Selangor. The time of great voyaging was coming to an end though and in 1431, Zheng would embark on his sixth and last voyage.

The old stele was a strange document, inscribed in three languages – Persian, Chinese and Tamil – praising and giving thanks to Allah, the Buddha, and the Hindu god Tenavarai-Nayanar. Lost for ...