Professor Luca Mola, Director at the Warwick Venice Centre, said it was a "unique window into the active trade routes that brought east and west together" between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

“The Venetians were very pragmatic, and they wanted to do trade,” says Trinita ... salvaged wreck of the Venetian merchant ship Gagliana Grossa, which sank en route to Istanbul in 1583 ...