Visitors immerse themselves in a virtual reality exhibition at the Nanjing Museum in Jiangsu province on July 10, 2025. The exhibition, titled Mapping the World: The Kunyu Wanguo Quantu of Ming China, ...

Great Ming Dynasty Amalgamated Map. Painted in color on silk and published in around 1389 during the Ming Dynasty. Again, it shows Hainan Island as the southernmost territory of China.

But critics say document that indicates China discovered the Americas is a fake Liu Gang, the owner of an ancient map he believes is a copy of an integrated world map by Ming dynasty explorer ...

The Da Ming Hun Yi Tu, or Amalgamated Map of the Great Ming Empire, is a unique snapshot of history. Created in China in 1389, and clearly showing the shape of Africa, more than 100 years before ...

Towering at a height of four metres, the Huang-Ming Yitong Da Tu, a magnificent old map of China, was hand-copied from an original produced by Japanese monks in Nagasaki in 1771.

The exhibition ‘Ming, 50 years that changed China’ is showing at the British Museum (britishmuseum.org) until January 5, 2015. Win one of 40 holidays worth £800,000 ...