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Using the latest digital research techniques to unlock the secrets of great works of art.

Istanbul, Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo. A century of modern art from the East.

A dive into the digital wild west of the art world where a pixelated punks created a financial bubble worth billions. 

How did Europe and America start to use paper money?

How China revolutionised trade with bronze coins and paper money centuries before the West.

From the 4th century BC onwards, the great powers that were empires used money to service their expansion. 

Invented 2700 years ago, money has fuelled empires, trade and wars, and has changed the course of civilisation.

How has music composed not to be listened to, penetrated so deeply into our lives?

After the Second World War comes the age of autocrats, as artists become witnesses to instability in the Arab world.

In Cairo, Beirut and Baghdad in the 1940s, artists were questioning what modern art should be.

From the end of the 19th century, artists from the Ottoman Empire set off for Europe to learn new techniques. 

 A phenomenon in the art market, CryptoPunks now bring together a close-knit, passionate community, but are also becoming a target for profiteers.

Now at the centre of a financial bubble worth billions of dollars, the CryptoPunks craze is getting out of control. 

In 2017 CryptoPunks, a collection of pixel art images, shook up the artworld

Were the two empresses of Roman antiquity really the criminals and depraved women described by chroniclers of the time?

Did French Queen Marie-Antoinette really betray her adopted country? And was Robespierre a dictator or a democrat?

In her battle against Ronald Reagan, activist Angela Davis became the icon of an entire generation.

Sculptors Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel had a passionate affair, but things turned sour.

Could the Spanish have conquered Mexico without the help of Malinche, a Native American slave who became Hernan Cortés' translator? 

How did Marie Curie's love affair with the married physicist Paul Langevin become a national story that divided France?