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Historians reveal the fascinating history of objects: Documents, materials, devices or clothes, everything has a tale to tell.

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

From antiquity to the present day, the story of two thousand years of intolerance and persecution against Jews.

November 1945. The world turned to the German city of Nuremberg for the trial of the century. 

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

Skiing began as a means of survival in prehistory, only becoming synonymous with glamour and leisure in modern times.

Spring 1946: The journalists gathered in Nuremberg witness the fallout of the Western powers with the Soviet Union.

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.

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?