Heritage
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
National Trust's report on colonial and slavery history did not breach charity law, regulator says
Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments
Pushing the envelope: new technology reads 300-year-old letter without opening it
X-rays and computer algorithms preserve the complicated technique of letterlocking, which turn writing paper into envelope
Ethiopian heritage under attack as reports of massacre emerge
Eyewitnesses say Eritrean military stormed an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Axum, killing hundreds
A German prince is suing his 'ungrateful' son for selling ancestral castle for €1
Ernst August Sr, Prince of Hanover, claims that his son went behind his back to seize control of his estates
The mullet wasn't just an 80s thing, as this newly unearthed Iron Age figure suggests
Celtic deity from Cambridgeshire sports impeccable hair that is slightly longer at the back
Proposed resort and water park threaten ancient heritage of Angkor Wat in Cambodia
Unesco has expressed alarm that the development will encroach onto the protected zone of the World Heritage site
Bavarian frescoes are confirmed to be among the oldest in northern Europe
New examinations of John the Baptist wall paintings in Augsburg cathedral date them to more than 1,000 years ago
Keep problematic monuments and ‘explain them’, UK government to tell cultural leaders
Opponents argue that some public statues reinforce racism, chauvinism, sexism and homophobia