A replica of a treasure ship that Admiral Zheng He (1371-1433) sailed in. The ship was on display in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Thursday and is to make its maiden voyage in 2014.

The replica of "Zheng He Treasure Ship," which is designed to be six-masted, 71.1 meters long and 14 meters wide with a displacement of 1,800 tonnes, is scheduled to complete installation in 2012 ...

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 by some ...

In real life, Zheng He was a 15th-century Chinese mariner and fleet admiral. In fact, one fleet of sailing ships he commanded, the treasure fleet, was one of the first known group of ships to use ...

A model of one of Zheng he's ships. Mike Peel, Wikimedia, CC China retracted into itself and the industrial revolution sprouted first in Western Europe, three centuries later.

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. However, in 1962 ...

Study off coast of Sri Lanka, where massive vessel that was part of Chinese adventurer’s fleet sank 600 years ago, has delivered ‘positive results’ ...

A replica of a treasure ship that Admiral Zheng He (1371-1433) sailed in. The ship was on display in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Thursday and is to make its maiden voyage in 2014.