At its height, Zheng's fleet included nearly 300 ships and a crew of 20,000, among them a large medical corps. A stone epitaph rubbing of one of the doctors who served in the fleet is featured in the ...

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And Zheng He, the 15th-century admiral who for a time lent his name to Tianwen-2, would surely approve of the riches that modern China’s spacefaring treasure ships will bring back home. Up Next ...

The Galle Trilingual Inscription, a relic of China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) legendary navigator and diplomat Zheng He's voyages, jointly nominated by China and Sri Lanka, has been officially ...

Did Zheng He’s Ming era Treasure Fleet help spread rodents around the world? ... domesticated brown rats may have spread by stowing away on ships used by admiral Zheng He during the Ming dynasty ...

Did Zheng He’s Ming era Treasure Fleet help spread rodents around the world? 15th century imperial silk paintings hint that explorer’s voyages may have carried some unintended passengers ...

In the 1470s the government destroyed Zheng's records so that his expeditions could not be repeated. And by 1525 all the ships in the Treasure Fleet were gone.

Zheng He undertook seven epic voyages from 1405 to 1433. He sailed with monstrous vessels called "treasure ships." These boats were supposedly the size of football fields, with multiple decks and ...

Zheng He commanded a fleet of 317 ships, almost 28,000 men, their arms and supplies. The fleet included several massive "treasure ships,"approximately 400 feet long and 160 feet wide. The places the ...

The largest ship in Zheng He’s armada is the Baochuan, or treasure ship, which is a Fuchuan-type ship. ST ILLUSTRATION: LIM YONG.