The Russian republic of Ingushetia is hoping that improved conservation will lead to Unesco status

Museum of Islamic Art exhibition looks at historic sites destroyed by years of civil war

The Unesco World Heritage Site had been closed for restoration since 2012

Explorers will be paid for image rights and receive share of entrance fees

Charles Le Brun project at Vaux-le-Vicomte, halted by a financial scandal at Louis XIV’s court, will be completed with video projection

Opening mega museums is not the only way to exercise soft power in the region

The splendid Nabatean site of Mada’in Saleh may be opened to tourists

President Macron is ushering in a new era for the return of displaced heritage

Yemen’s cultural heritage is at serious risk as war and famine ravage the country

Iron Age structure was targeted in campaign against Kurdish separatists

Park Hill Art Space will include artists' studios and a research institute

Dismantlement and reconstruction

Poland’s prime minister has offered to save the work from censorship and the “dictates of political correctness”

Cultural locations in the Caribbean, the US Gulf coast and Mexico hit by recent hurricanes and earthquakes were a last minute addition to the list

In a surprise election, the dark-horse candidate won the vote of the culture agency’s executive board

As part of conservation of its indigenous American art collection and gallery, the institution will send some objects back to Native American groups to be replicated

Site gives information on international regulations and protected German heritage

The town council proposes digital monitoring and a charge to enter St Mark’s Square

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