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A wealth of knowledge salvaged from shipwrecks

Goods found on board can illuminate trade routes and global connections, often going back thousands of years, in ways no other archaeological sites can

Some of the gold treasures retrieved from the extraordinarily rich 9th-century Belitung wreck found off Indonesia. [Getty Images]
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  • A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

    David Gibbins

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 289, £25

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