The Mongolia Mountain and Water Map has 211 places marked from Ming Dynasty's frontier Jiayuguan Pass westward to Mecca of Saudi Arabia. Researchers have discovered that a document long thought to ...

The encyclopedia, known as the Yongle Dadian, was originally commissioned by the Yongle Emperor, the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty, who reigned from 1402 to 1424. Two volumes of the Ming Dynasty ...

The exploits of the intrepid Ming Dynasty explorer known as the Three ... which claims that he reached the Americas in that year. In January, a map unearthed by a collector of old charts in ...

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A lawyer and amateur historian says a map he bought five years ago shows 15th century Ming dynasty explorer Zheng He was the first to sail around the world. Collector Lui ...

A major exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland is telling the extraordinary story of China's Ming dynasty ... This detailed map of the world in the early 17th century combines European ...