A history of the world in sixteen shipwrecks

Dufuna dugout (c. 6000 BCE)

Khufu barge (2600 BCE)

Uluburun shipwreck (1327 BCE)

Sutton Hoo burial (c. 645 CE)

Intan shipwreck (c. 1000)

Maimonides wreck (1167)

Kublai Khan's fleet (1281)

Bremen cog (1380)

Barbary War galley (1582)

Los Tres Reyes (1634)

HMS Victory (1744)

Lucy Walker (1844)

Flying Cloud (1874)

Lusitania (1915)

Exxon Valdez (1989)

Costa Concordia (2012)

Conclusion: Maritime history as world history.