A man named Zheng He led the charge ... By the time Ma He was 10, his parents had died, and he was a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty's army. As was common practice, Ma He was castrated and sent ...

but also yield a hoard of lost Ming dynasty (1368-1644) treasure. Zheng was born into a Muslim family in 1371. Castrated in his youth, he served as a eunuch in the imperial court before becoming a ...

Zheng He's journeys took him to 37 countries over ... Emperor Yongle, the first ruler of the Ming dynasty, wanted to showcase China's naval power, and in 1402 commissioned Zheng to undertake ...

Indonesia held events to commemorate the 618th anniversary of the arrival during the voyages of Chinese Ming Dynasty navigator Zheng He on Saturday, in Semarang City, the capital of Central Java ...

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 ...

More than 6,000 people, including a Ming dynasty princess, are buried in Bukit Cina, which was established more than 600 years ago by Zheng He, the Chinese admiral, diplomat and maritime explorer.

As early as the end of Zheng He’s first voyage in 1407, the Ming dynasty began replacing its winter allowances of cloth and cotton to soldiers in and around Beijing with sappanwood; by 1424, part of ...

domesticated brown rats may have spread by stowing away on ships used by admiral Zheng He during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The expeditions involved tens of thousands of men and hundreds of ...