More than 30,000 imperial artefacts were found in the nearby RioZoo last week

Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia rooms open with support from UK government's Cultural Protection Fund

She was a key figure in the post-war re-establishment of Iraq’s antiquities museums

New exhibition presents documents that lay the foundations for reconstruction of Aleppo and other sites ruined by civil war

Senior curator Margaret Maitland reveals the stories behind some of the key exhibits in the new Ancient Egypt Rediscovered gallery

Reliefs from Ashurnasirpal II’s Nimrud palace, fixed to the walls of a Scottish mansion, have been removed, stripped and sold abroad

The new Greek and Roman curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum should rejuvenate its displays with honest, better stories

Inaugural show presents jewels and precious objects excavated in the early 20th century alongside more recent discoveries

Egyptian government hopes vast museum near Pyramids of Giza will win back international tourists

Exhibition at the British Museum includes carved ivories and a recreation of his huge library of cuneiform tablets

The 31 October sale has prompted calls for repatriation and criticism of the seller, highlighting the gap between art ethics and law

The Al Thani collection to be displayed at revamped Hôtel de la Marine over 20 years, in a deal that will help fund the building’s restoration

Tests by German institute show "characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin"

Civilians will be allowed to enter your house, break open containers and use “reasonable force”

Survey at Martin-Gropius-Bau boasts a staggering 1,000 exhibits discovered over the past 20 years in Germany

Auction houses and art dealers express ‘relief’ even as the US-China trade war escalates

The Spanish-launguage movie follows two middle-class flunkies who somehow pulled off one the largest antiquities thefts in modern-day history

Hidden underground galleries closed since 2006 still house £100m Assyrian relief

A further 6,000 items belonging to Ali Aboutaam of Phoenix Ancient Art are still held by authorities in Geneva

Piers Secunda’s exhibition on destroyed ancient Assyrian objects is part of ongoing attempts to bring peace to a divided region

Authorities says they have received "good offers from the world powers" to help conserve ancient sites

A short but fascinating book about a man immortalised through architecture

The Calderstones are being studied, recorded and restored before their reinstallation

Large gaps in the material and a lack of thorough explanation make this volume less useful than it could be

Scholars say the organisation needed to build the 12,000-year-old temple may mark the beginnings of class society and patriarchy

The foundation walls contain niches used to store scrolls

Ancient city occupied by Islamic State was retaken by Syrian army with Russian support in 2017

Monte Albán, the ancient capital of the Zapotec people, was damaged by earthquakes in 2017

“I cannot imagine where a terracotta life-size horse head could come from in antiquity,” a specialist says

An Italian judge has found that the work was discovered in Italian water, despite decades of rulings to the contrary