Hi everyone, Dana here. We're taking this week and next week off to work on some upcoming episodes.

But in the meantime, we wanted to bring back one of our favorite episodes, one of my favorites, from our Kernan culture's vault.

It's this beautiful story about a group of staff working at the Beirut Museum at the start of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.

The war was getting pretty brutal, and so the team at the museum came up with this crazy and elaborate plan to protect some of the museum's most precious collections.

It's a wonderful story that will make your hearts well.

I really hope you enjoy it.

Here's the episode.

Our story today starts with a woman named Susie.

In 1975, Susie was about 24 years old,

and right out of university, she landed a job at the Beirut's National Museum.

I studied archaeology. In fact, I have, I was also, she landed a job at the Beirut National Museum. I studied archaeology. In fact, I had a degree in political sciences.

This is Susie, Susie Hakimia.

I mean, it seems that fate brought me to the department of Antiquis. There was a vacancy.

And when she started working at the National Museum in Beirut, she joined a team of older, mostly

male, archaeologists who were a little confused about why she was there.

I remember when I came, one of the archerses, said, what are you going to do?

I said, I don't know if she gave me the work. I will, I mean, when they will give me what I have to do.

And in a way, they found it very funny to have somebody very, very young.

Her boss at the time was this well-known, respected Lebanese archaeologist named Maurice Shihab.

Maurice had earned the title of the father of Lebanese archaeology, because in the early 20th century in Lebanon, he had been responsible for a bunch of important excavations.

He was kind of a big deal.

And Susie quickly learned that her boss didn't like going by Maurice Cheheb.

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