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  1. The Manticore's Long Journey: How a Porcelain Monster Survived Vienna's Darkest Hour
  2. Blue by Day, Red by Night: The Hope Diamond's 350-Year Journey to the Smithsonian
  3. The boy in the net: how a Greek bronze spent 2,000 years at the bottom of the Adriatic
  4. The ivory kings of Uig: how 93 medieval chess pieces slept in a Scottish sandbank for 700 years
  5. The guardian of Dur-Sharrukin: 2,700 years in the life of a bull
  6. The Temple of Dendur: a Roman emperor's sandstone proxy, sailed to New York beneath Italian cheese
  7. The face in the iron: how the Sutton Hoo helmet survived 1,400 years, two reconstructions, and one war
  8. Forty years of almost losing them: the ruby slippers’ unlikely path to the Smithsonian
  9. The king who carved his laws in stone: the 3,750-year journey of the Code of Hammurabi
  10. Violet all along: Van Gogh's Irises and the 135-year secret the Getty finally proved
  11. 1,400 years of silence: the Rosetta Stone, EA 24
  12. Seven panels, one riddle: the Hunt of the Unicorn at The Met Cloisters
  13. She has no head. She has no arms. She has never needed them.
  14. Twelve Seconds Over Kill Devil Hills: The 1903 Wright Flyer's Long Road to the Smithsonian
  15. The Wound in the Marble: How the Parthenon's Sculptures Were Split Between Athens and London — and Why They May Never Be Reunited
  16. The $9.5 Million Question: How a Marble Youth Fooled — or Didn't Fool — Everyone
  17. The Armless Goddess: How a Farmer's Discovery Became the World's Most Famous Statue
  18. William the Hippopotamus: The 4,000-Year-Old Tomb Guardian Who Became a Museum Mascot
  19. The Argument in the Frame: Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington
  20. The Kingdom in the Plaque: Benin's Stolen Archive
  21. The Man Who Has Been Waiting 4,500 Years
  22. The Cup That Shocked Two Millennia
  23. Madame X: The Portrait That Nearly Destroyed Sargent
  24. The Wedding at Cana: How the Louvre's Largest Painting Got There
  25. The Lansdowne Herakles: How a Roman Marble Hero Traveled from Tivoli to Malibu
  26. The Queen's Champion: How George Clifford's Tournament Armor Encoded a Tudor Devotion in Fire-Gilded Steel
  27. "Let the People See": The Emmett Till Casket and the Object That Opened America's Eyes
  28. The Boy in the Red Beret: Pontormo's Portrait of a Halberdier
  29. The Hidden Friend: How a Stone Giant Was Swallowed by Darkness, Then Washed Up in London
  30. Glamorous Glennis: The Orange Rocket Plane That Broke the Sky
  31. The Name Wasn't Mazarin's: How Rome's Most Traveled Venus Became Getty's First Antiquity
  32. The Painting That Fits in Your Hands — and Cannot Be Imagined Twice
  33. The Book a Queen Held in Her Palm
  34. The Dining Room That Ate Its Owner
  35. Pulled from the Sea
  36. Wreckage and Witness: The Story of The Raft of the Medusa
  37. The Stone That Broke the Silence: Rosetta Stone, British Museum EA 24
  38. The Man Who Stared Back: Velázquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja
  39. The Best Ship to Come Down the Line: Apollo 11's Command Module Columbia
  40. The Bull Was a Ship: Rembrandt's Abduction of Europa and the Merchant Who Commissioned It
  41. The Name Lost in the Sand
  42. The Glass That Trapped a King