Conservation
Pompeii in a fix despite cash boost
Funds for Great Pompeii Project could be withdrawn as lack of staff and red tape stifle efforts to save site
Nepal mourns and prepares to rebuild after heritage is destroyed in deadly quake
Prime minister appeals for $2bn after historic squares are reduced to rubble and ancient temples are damaged in deadly disaster
Has Russian government’s half-billion dollar pledge to save historic city of Vyborg come too late?
Experts blame local authorities in Vyborg for failing to act as architecture begins to collapse
Where Marie Antoinette laid her head: Fontainebleau’s reinstated Turkish bedroom opens to the public
Opening marks the completion of a seven-year restoration project
Fears for cultural heritage as Israel sells off property
Experts say Palestinian heritage is at risk as ministry makes money from buildings seized from refugees
Palace replica opens at Chinese movie studios, despite official complaints
Authorities at the Old Summer Palace in Beijing tried to block the copy from being built
Four Seasons revamp turned down by NYC landmarks commission
Aby Rosen’s controversial plans to bring the 1958 restaurant “back to its original glory” met with opposition from architects and preservationists
Yemen’s historic sites damaged in airstrikes after ceasefire fails
Unesco chief condemns attacks, urges all side to keep heritage out of the conflict
Hi, Biennale Crowd: did you know Venice is dying for these six reasons?
What you can do despite too many cruise ships, rising sea level and with no one in charge
Napoléon drowned, beheaded and restored
Treatment of emperor’s statue may resolve conflicting accounts of its history
Backlash over claim that Egyptian geese were cooked up in 1800s
Museum director and former antiquities minister refute Italian archaeologist’s theory
Pompeian frescoes cured with antibiotics
Bacteria removed from Villa of the Mysteries frieze during restoration
Grand designs on Soane’s London home
Visitors can see the architect’s newly restored living quarters for the first time in 160 years
Leonardo’s muse keeps her secrets as portrait returns to Milan
Thinning the painting’s varnish reveals La Belle Ferronnière's fine features, but French experts unable to confirm her identity
Ancestral home of the last Knight of Glin for sale
Restored with passion by Desmond FitzGerald, co-founder of the Irish Georgian society, it is on the market at €6.5m, contents extra
Research puts Goya’s witches in right order
"Feat in forensics” finally establishes correct sequence of artist's private album
Armenian churches in Turkey and Cyprus win awards for conservation and community reconciliation
Winners of Europa Nostra prize include Stonehenge visitor centre and virtual museum of St Mark's in Venice
Cultural heritage at heart of propaganda battle in Iraq
Following vandalism at Mosul museum and Nergal Gate, Iraqi government says IS has destroyed ancient sites at Nimrud, Hatra and Khorsabad
Vatican begins final work on Raphael rooms
The work may make it possible to identify which parts of the frescoes were painted by Giulio Romano, Raphael’s most trusted apprentice
Reims repairs its war damage, a century on
Restoration of the cathedral is due to be completed in 2015
Fixing - or not fixing - the works in Berlin's sculpture collections damaged in 1945
Should they be left as a reminder of a dark past or restored to reflect the artists’ intentions?
Painting due to be removed from museum wins reprieve after tests prove it is a genuine Old Master
Not fake, but ‘tarted up’
Tate finds 370-year-old bullet hole in Charles I statue
The sculpture was famously attacked by Parliamentarians shortly after the outbreak of the English Civil War
Syrian war’s devastating toll on antiquities
Unesco places major national heritage sites on danger list as ground combat, air strikes and looting reduce ancient settlements to rubble
Conservators save Burden’s war from brink
Breathing new life into the installation that the American artist wanted to destroy