In this interview, conducted during NOVA's dig at the Cave of Letters some 40 years after his finds there, Porat fondly reminisces about his team's discoveries and explains the importance of the ...

Seven times, from 1405 to 1433, the treasure fleets set off for the unknown. These seven great expeditions brought a vast web of trading links—from Taiwan to the Persian Gulf—under Chinese ...

Here, Tung Wu, Head of the Department of Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) and consultant for the NOVA program "Sultan's Lost Treasure," reveals some of the ...

NOVA is the most popular primetime science series ... and our universe. The PBS series is also one of the most widely distributed science programs in the world, and is a multimedia, multiplatform ...

Estimates of the treasure ships' size are based in literary references in texts pertaining to the first of the Ming emperors, Zhu Di (1402-1424). Zhu Di was known for grandiose projects such as ...