Heritage
Twelfth-century Virgin shows her true colours
Rare Russian icon originally written off as a “ruin” has finally been restored
A timeline of African American history, told through quilts
Pieces in the Bruce Museum show cover cultural milestones and important figures, from the early Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells to 1967 Supreme Court case about interracial marriage
Italy sets up Unesco task force to protect antiquities in conflict areas
Team will also provide training for local restorers
Turin’s Egyptian museum dedicates gallery to Italian student murdered in Cairo
Hall of Deir el-Medina to become memorial to Giulio Regeni
More than 500 cultural objects returned to Ecuador
Ancient artefacts and colonial-era art repatriated from Argentina and Spain
Yemen battles to save ancient heritage from destruction
Museum in Taiz latest casualty of conflict in which more than 40 sites caught in the crossfire of Saudi-led bombing campaign and fundamentalist attacks
Altamira caves raffle plan is ‘nonsense’, says Spain’s culture secretary
Local tourist minister has proposed auctioning tickets to the heritage site to help raise funds
Painting by Rembrandt’s favourite pupil given UK export bar
Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy
Lords put pressure on UK government to sign Hague Convention this year
Move could allow cultural heritage experts to set up Blue Shield headquarters in London
French museum reunites head with decapitated Khmer statue
The Musée Guimet has returned the ancient sculpture to Cambodia as part of a five-year loan agreement
Isil extremists destroy Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery
The destruction, which went unreported for 16 months, raises fears that other sites have been attacked
National Trust to restore fire-devastated Clandon Park
Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed
Suspected arson at Fontainebleau church
Historic furnishings damaged and around a dozen objects missing or destroyed
France builds grand alliance to protect cultural heritage
Louvre director’s plan calls for co-ordinated response to destruction in Syria and Iraq
Celebrated director of World Monuments Fund retires
Bonnie Burnham made the organisation, which turns 50 this year, into a global powerhouse
We’ll store your artefacts, US tells Syrian museums
New framework stresses return principle but some fear that traffickers in illicit objects could abuse it
Italy’s culture workers threaten national protest
While government moves to limit right to strike by reclassifying museums as “essential public services” on a par with schools and hospitals
First hearings held in the Hague over alleged cultural heritage war crimes
Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi appeared at the International Criminal Court this week in connection to 2012 attacks on Timbuktu
Mecca’s collapsing crane was part of a criticised building boom
Saudi Artist Ahmed Mater has captured the rampant redevelopment around the Islamic holy place
Satellite image confirms Isil's destruction of Palmyra's Temple of Bel
Second building reduced to rubble by extremists controlling ancient site in Syria
Putin intervenes in Crimean row
Priest resigns after outrage over appointment to run World Heritage Site
Isil destroys ancient temple in Palmyra
Bombing, reported yesterday, may have happened a month ago
Isil beheads archaeologist in Palmyra
Syria's antiquities ministry condemns killing as "cowardly and criminal act of appalling brutality"
Queen Nefertiti’s burial chamber could lie behind King Tutankhamun’s tomb
British archaeologist discovers evidence of hidden passages in pharaoh’s chamber
Culture fights back in Tunisia
Sufi-inspired exhibition aims to rescue Islam from the extremists
Restoration work on Timbuktu's historic tombs to finish this month
Ancient sites were targeted by extremist groups