Momentous map
By Han Bingbin | China Daily | Updated: 2013-04-27 07:36
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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 be a landscape painting from the Qing Dynasty, is in fact one of China's earliest world maps from the Ming Dynasty. Han Bingbin reports.
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