Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones, & Einstein's Brain: The Remarkable Stories Behind the Great Objects and Artifacts of History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era

Every artifact is a story.

Harvey Rachlin gathers more than fifty of history's most storied physical objects into a single volume and tells the story behind each one. The mounted hide of Stonewall Jackson's battle horse. The Black Obelisk. The Rosetta Stone. George Washington's false teeth. Vice Admiral Lord Nelson's uniform coat. The skeleton of the Elephant Man. The bed on which Lincoln died.

For each artifact, Rachlin traces how it came to be, how it survived, and where it sits today. Th...