In recent years more people and institutes have realised the importance of our
maritime past and the need to save the remains from the ravages of time and
illegal activities through recently developed tools and scientific methods of
maritime archaeology. The developed scientific techniques have helped to make
maritime archaeological studies more systematic. And now it is possible for
archaeologists to reconstruct in detail the daily lives onboard, commerce and
technology from findings such as cargoes, personal belongings and ship remains.
Shipwrecks around the World: Revelations of the past, covers the story of many
shipwrecks from the 15th century onwards, from the Pacific to the Mediterranean,
from the