Treasure
A Royal Tunic
Unraveling an Inca masterpiece’s secrets
by Max J. Krupnick
Africa in Clay
Pliable arts from across the continent
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Jewel Box and Jewels
A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard
by John S. Rosenberg
A Millennial Mystery
…and a possible clue in the stacks
by Diane E. Booton
“Party Animals”
Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Shifting Sands
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
by Sophia Nguyen
Gymsuits, Pre-Spandex
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged
by Sophia Nguyen
Hard Lives, in Wax
Artifacts of embryology
by Sophia Nguyen
The Benton Gospels
Rare and beautiful, then and now: a Byzantine codex at Dumbarton Oaks
by Bailey Trela
Games of Old
Amusements to dispel the winter blues
by Diane E. Booton
Eye on the Cosmos
The telescope that helped define Earth’s place in the universe
by Jonathan Shaw