Controversial historian Gavin Menzies is claiming that this map from 1418 proves that the New World was discovered by China’s Admiral Zheng He some 70 years before Columbus. But that’s not the ...

In 2014, 36 volunteers will get to travel on a 71.1-meter-long wooden replica of the treasure ship on which Admiral Zheng He (1371-1433) undertook seven voyages in the 1400s. The ship is being ...

Being kelp in the Colombo National Museum, the inscription was initially installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He in Galle during his grand voyages. It dates from February 15, 1409. The inscription, ...