Warning: This Star Trek: Picard article contains MAJOR spoilers for the season finale. Here’s everything we know about Riker’s fleet in the Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Picard, “Et in ...

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 ...

The Chinese admiral Zheng He must have made quite the impression when the 300 ships under his command arrived at a new destination. The biggest vessels, known as “treasure ships,” were ...

Chinese explorer Zheng He and his fleet sailed on diplomatic and business missions in the early 15th century, reaching as far as northeast Africa. Now more than 600 years later, a replica of his ...

The name of this ship is itself a very nerdy historical Easter egg. Zheng He was a 15th century Chinese diplomat and admiral who controlled a group of treasure ships known as the "Star Fleet ...

The man he chose as its commander was Zheng He. Against a backdrop of the mighty treasure ships under his command, Zheng He stands dressed in white in Hongnian Zhang’s modern oil painting of ...

Fifteenth-century China was a maritime powerhouse that explored new lands and opened trade routes. It was also the best-connected political entity in the world, with a presence in Asia, Africa ...

The ship is named after a 15th-century Chinese explorer. In addition to being an accomplished mariner, Zheng He commanded the Ming Dynasty’s treasure ships, which were referred to as the “Star ...

Zheng was born into a Muslim family in 1371. Castrated in his youth, he served as a eunuch in ... of which about a fifth were “treasure ships”. Such vessels traditionally set sail laden ...

could have spread to the rest of the world while the treasure ship fleets of explorer Zheng He ruled the oceans. The artwork could be the earliest evidence of such domestication, shedding light on ...