Negotiations have lasted five years only to fall through due to security issues

The site is considered one of the holiest in Iraq, containing the remains of two of the Prophet's descendants

There are fears that the new station will be a target for insurgents; Unesco powerless to protect the World Heritage site

At least 18 shrines have been attacked since last February, says antiquities head

Unesco has published a record of the 1,600 objects acquired by the institution between 1931 and 1985

The original piece was destroyed in a disastrous 2004 warehouse fire

Professor Alistair Northedge asserts that the minaret is the only structure that fits a description provided by US marines

And so it came to pass that not a single world renowned site or treasured museum was protected

Solicitors say premises were “a disaster waiting to happen”

Insurgents allegedly staged the attack to prevent US troops using the tower as a vantage point

We can help by providing training in site management techniques, in museology and in conservation

The American contractor that built the infrastructure for a base adjacent to the ancient site is responsible for much of the destruction, says an independent report

After 500 years, Leonardo’s fragile portrait is starting to warp

Geologists have found the land on the steep slope at the back of the fortress is sliding down at a rate of a centimetre a month

An Oxford University Press book on a nationalist hero has been withdrawn from the Indian market

The Art Newspaper takes inventory of the worst casualties

While the Warka Vase has been accounted for, reports suggest that the cylinder seal collection has vanished

The Art Newspaper speaks to the director of the Metropolitan about the historical significance of the Iraq Museum's plunder and how disasters of its kind can be dealt with

American army says it was aware of the risks, but did not protect the building as Iraqi nationals overwhelmed staff who attempted to defend the collection

The devastation wreaked by war in pictures

Polls show the public could not care less what the art world thinks

Unesco sends out conflicting press releases

The ancient Assyrian empire, along with over a hundred other heritage sites, will face detrimental flooding

Unesco will convene an international meeting next month to discuss reconstruction

Yugoslav air force guilty of destroying historic monuments in Dubrovnik

Work is underway, but worst hit town Vukovar still 'deserted'

A $1.8 million project saves both paintings and the contemplative space designed by the artist himself

The sculpture that adorns the churches and palaces of Venice is being damaged beyond retrieval by pollution and vandalism

After the sculptures' surfaces were damaged in the 1930s due to improper care, the museum has cleaned up its act

Bonsanti defends the twenty-year project that hoped to breathe life back into the wreck of one of Leonardo's masterworks