Anne Umland: The Italian artist Gino Severini painted Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin in 1912, when he was living in Paris. Severini's goal, like that of his fellow Italian Futurists, was to ...

Curator, Anne Umland: When I first look at this work, it feels a little bit like what you might experience if you walk into a very crowded, noisy room. It was inspired by a very popular Paris ...

The main story is the search for two artefacts which combined become an extraordinary weapon in the form a nuclear laser which turns rock into molten lava. There are various interests in the ...

As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon ...

While the history of the alphabet of a particular language may not be of interest to many, it was quite significant to the Greeks. Lots of ancient Greek records contain stories about how they got ...