It’s difficult to believe these images are not images. They are pencil drawings created by diego Fazio, a 23 year old self-taught specialist residing in Italy. Also known as DiegoKoi on Deviantart, diego began off as a tattooist but gradually began illustrating systems instead of illustrating on them. Each carefully specific symbol can take up to 200 hours to finish.
Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming era, Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who was also the court eunuch, commanded seven expeditionary voyages as far away as East Africa and Middle East. These expeditions, known in Chinese history as the treasure voyages, consisted of hundreds of ships of enormous dimensions carrying a crew as large as 28,000 and great amounts of treasures. The purpose of the voyages were to project Chinese power and wealth to the outside world, as well as to establish imperial control over the maritime trade.








