Shadows and Dust

Gone but not forgotten. From the Peking Man to fugitive DB Cooper, from Columbus's sunken Santa Maria to Cambyses's vanished armies, history's missing pieces evade recapture. Ensnared in illicit dealings, cloaked in myth and rumour, hunted by the masses, phantom fragments inspire obsession and theories of sabotage, miscalculation, and worlds undone without warning. How did we allow these precious relics to slip from …