Emily Sharpe

The race to digitise the world’s heritage

Non-profit organisation has big plans to gather data from 500 sites over the next five years

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Cold War spy photos help locate archaeological sites across the globe

Major grant to expand project that uses images from Corona military satellite system to pinpoint archaeological remains

Richard III to move from car park to cathedral

Following DNA testing, confirmed remains of the last Plantagenet King will be moved from original burial site to Leicester Cathedral

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MoMA shows Nixon’s home movies

“It’s a granular look at different types of presidential films of the past century,” says one of the festival’s founders

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Libyan shrines under attack as militant Islamists target Muslim mausoleums

Protesters demand protection for cultural heritage as clashes turn violent

Why art conservation needs to be left to the experts

A Spanish grandmother’s handiwork recently made headlines, but Ajax and rainstorms have contributed to other botched treatments by amateurs

Who’s in the picture? Anti-terror software might tell us

Face recognition software used to spot terrorists may be the answer to identifying unknown sitters in portraits.

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California and New Mexico murals go digital with the Getty

Painstakingly documented by Ernest Long, this archive may be all that is left of many

Infrared-light technology gets funding boost

Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks

Jury clears Britons of Da Vinci theft extortion

Three lawyers and two private detectives are now off the hook

"Naked scanners" being used to research mummies

A new use for airport screening technology

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Terracotta warriors survive Chile earthquake

A group of the soldiers were on loan to the La Moneda Palace in Santiago

Fondation Beyeler unveils plans to allow observation of Matisse restoration

A conservation studio will be opened to educate the public about the costly process of reconstructing Matisse's Acanthes

An advance in iron preservation aids conservators

Work on Civil War submarine leads to pioneering technique

Forgeriesarchive

Early copy of the Gospel of Mark is a forgery

US scholars, conservators and scientists collaborate to prove that a “14th-century manuscript” is a skilled fake

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Technology reveals Caravaggio self-portrait

Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection

Hollywood technology used to examine new Herculaneum find

Researchers see future applications for this cross-over science

Farhad Farjam opens private museum in Dubai

The Iranian businessman has an extensive collection of Islamic and modern art

“A quantum leap” for Australia as collector John Kaldor donates $35m-worth of art to AGNSW

Kaldor has donated work by Rauschenberg, Christo, LeWitt, Koons, Judd, and Gursky, among many others

Art's Most Popular: Single work by Leonardo attracts over 10,000 Japanese viewers a day

For the fourth year the Tokyo National Museum has the highest exhibition attendance, but is only 17th in our list of the most visited museums last year

US collector Brooke Allen returns relics sacred to Kenyan tribe

The works were part of an estate the collector inherited from her parents

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Khmer sculpture handed back to Cambodia

An attempt to smuggle it was thwarted in the US

Statues by the elder Calder get laser treatment

These conservation efforts removed the many years of corrosion built up on the works

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Collector pays £1 million for oil sketches of British Royal Family

14 preparatory sketches of members of the royal family