Heritage
Uyghur tribunal reveals horrific abuses inside Xinjiang detention camps
Museums who partner with China need to know about the violence, says panel investigating alleged crimes against humanity
Mussolini family feuds over reopened crypt of fascist Italian dictator
The controversial site has become a pilgrimage for far-right supporters
Amazon's plans to build massive warehouse near Roman aqueduct in south of France cause concern
Locals say the construction will be a "wart" on the way to Pont du Gard, a Unesco world heritage site, and will harm the surrounding environment
Number of art thefts in Italy plummets—partly thanks to drones
New report by special police force finds increase in security and surveillance technology has dissuaded dealers in stolen art
Museum chiefs—and Mick Jagger—say Venice must be saved as cruise ships are set to return to lagoon city after 18-month break
Signatories of the open letter supporting ten point-plan to save La Serenissima also include the artist Anish Kapoor and The Art Newspaper's founding editor Anna Somers Cocks
China's destruction of Uyghur cultural property evidence of 'genocidal intent', UK MPs declare
Members of Parliament send warning to China ahead of motion to acknowledge human rights abuses against minorities in Xinjiang region
Special investigation: Declassified satellite images show erasure of Armenian churches
Covert destruction of Armenian-Christian heritage in Azerbaijan’s autonomous republic of Nakhichevan has been exposed in recently surfaced Cold War spy imagery taken by the US in the 1970s, published here for the first time
First the Louvre's pyramid, now the actual Pyramids—JR to create show-stopping project in Egypt
Street artist hints he might make a photo collage at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site as part of exhibition organised by Art D’Egypte
Woolworth Building in San Antonio, a landmark in civil rights history, is spared from demolition
Former 1921 dime store, which peacefully desegregated its lunch counter in 1960, will house an Alamo museum
Campaigners fight to preserve monumental Soviet-era murals in Ukraine
Victor Arnautoff’s large-scale 1960s mosaics on public buildings in Mariupol are threatened by neglect and a “decommunisation” campaign
The fight to save Saudi Arabia’s Modern architecture
The reaction to the destruction of Al Rabooa mosque highlights changing attitudes to the conservation of Modernist and post-Modernist buildings in the kingdom
Off with her head! Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French king used a paintbrush to replace one wife with another
Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows
Prominent Israeli rabbi: 'al-Aqsa mosque is the heart of the deadly hostilities—nobody really gets it'
Respect for religious sites and religions—not military might—is the only way forward, he says
Bell foundry that cast Big Ben can be turned into boutique hotel, UK government says
Decision has drawn wave of criticism from culture and heritage professionals, accusing government of ‘money-grabbing philistinism’
Cerne Abbas Giant—Dorset's enormous chalk figure—was Saxon, new study finds
Mysterious image still holds some secrets however
Looted Libyan sculpture seized at Heathrow Airport heads back home with help from the British Museum
The funerary piece was illicitly excavated from the ancient city of Cyrene which is under threat from property developers
‘The Colosseum is the last thing I would spend money on’: experts angry over plans for €15m floor at Italy’s most famous site
Archaeologists object to covering the amphitheatre's unique underground space and point to more vital restoration projects in the country
Catherine de Medici portrait returns to Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill after almost 200 years
Painting is the only surviving contemporary image of the monarch
As India's death toll surges, £2bn renovation of Delhi parliament buildings continues as 'essential service'
Many are questioning how Prime Minister Narendra Modi can justify his "vanity project" as hospitals are overwhelmed with patients
Acropolis renovation plans spark accusations that it’s ‘just another way to fit in more tourists’
Archaeologists fear the structural changes aimed to improve access to the Unesco site will “dramatically” change its form
'Hurrah, it’s leprosy!' How a conservator and a historian are decoding the grisly tales in Canterbury Cathedral’s stained-glass windows
New research for British Museum exhibition means panels depicting St Thomas Becket's healing miracles will be correctly reassembled after centuries in the wrong order
How the Pope's historic visit to Iraq highlighted Islamic State's destruction of Christian heritage—and the artists working on rebuilding it
The terrorist group destroyed 350 churches and persecuted Iraqi Christians in 2014
From heartstrings to purse strings: nostalgia and the art market
Sometimes the wistful memory of time long past is all one needs to spend a few hundred thousand.
Only connect: Icomos and Europa Nostra join up to influence European Union’s one trillion euro Green Deal
Conservation experts and lobby group launch a Green Paper to put Europe’s heritage at the heart of the EU’s greening policy
Egyptian archaeologists uncover ‘lost golden city of Luxor’
The 3,000-year-old site is remarkably preserved, with pottery, daily tools and human remains found among its intact walls
Gifted to the English city 80 years ago, Coventry's medieval Charterhouse will finally open to the public
After a £4.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and years of restoration, the historic priory is set to open this summer
Grayson Perry is casting a bell to ring at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic
As future of London's historic Whitechapel foundry hangs in the balance, artist’s bell will be made elsewhere
Restored Ghent Altarpiece returns to Saint Bavo's Cathedral with a temperature-controlled case and AR headsets
Medieval masterpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck is being unveiled today after a three-year treatment
Robots and submarines: France's new state-of-the-art ship is a game changer for marine archaeology
Big enough to cross the Atlantic, the high-tech research vessel Alfred Merlin ushers in a new era for French underwater heritage
Fire destroys the ‘Sistine Chapel of the Purépecha Plateau’ in Mexico
Art historian who knew the building best says the Indigenous community who worshipped in the unique 16th-century church should decide what will replace it