World Monuments Fund launches scheme to teach traditional stone masonry in Jordanian town of Mafraq

Zaki Aslan, the director of the ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah, will deliver talk in London on heritage in conflict zones

Exhibition features ancient objects and Medieval manuscripts, along with contemporary commissions by a Syrian-born artist

On Friday, France will propose a new resolution to UN Security Council to safeguard sites in conflict zones around the world

V&A and National Trust consider repeat of 2004 campaign to keep rare Mughal flask and huqqa in UK

The 15-year plan is intended to bolster Paris’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games and 2025 World’s Fair

Entry fees to help maintain city’s most popular archaeological site, which received 7 million visitors last year

Inquest underway to determine whether discovery in Shropshire constitutes a "treasure"

Malian cultural heritage at biggest risk in wake of Islamist rebel attacks

Fears grow over fate of ancient Syrian site which suffered disastrous destruction during last occupation by extremists

The $100m initiative, inspired by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, will be presented at a conference in Abu Dhabi this week

The Second Protocol of the Hague Convention was met with strong resistance from Western military powers when it was adopted in 1999

The blaze at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God at Vardzia may have been started by a monk’s candle

Patrizio Bertelli made the plea at the unveiling of Vasari's Last Supper, which is back on display 50 years after it was damaged in the Florence flood of 1966

UK military draws up plans for specialist unit to protect cultural heritage in war zones

Project is part of wider programme to support cultural heritage in Palestine and Jordan Valley

Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi was first to face war crimes trial in The Hague over cultural destruction

More than 1,000 sign letter denouncing construction of oil route that crosses Native American ancestral lands

The French president was joined by the US vice president Joe Biden at the Metropolitan Museum in New York Tuesday night

On the heels of bomb scares in the city, a cultural casualty of Isis is rebuilt in City Hall Park

Unesco’s director-general Irina Bokova has strongly condemned the attack

Culture ministry meets with specialist art squad today to plan response after first emergency phase

Visitors will be able to see the Tudor king's favourite vessel up close as protective barriers come down

As the Unesco World Heritage Committee convenes in Istanbul, a recent report by the organisation highlights sites under threat from global warming<br>

Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who set fire to the entrance on Lubyanka Square as part of a performance, is now facing trial in Moscow

Ships could dock in new port outside the lagoon

Sites including Pompeii, Paestum and the earthquake-stricken city of L’Aquila get major cash injection