Missing Pieces

Could a pair of ancient looking coins reveal the existence of a previously unknown Roman emperor?

In 1820 the discovery of an ancient Greek statue with missing arms posed more questions than answers.

The question of reconstruction was a thorny issue in postwar Germany, where celebrations of the ‘glorious’ past took on a different hue. 

Did two paintings by the Italian master Caravaggio end up in a backstreet shop in Avignon?

Missing fragments of the written record are made all the more conspicuous by their absence.