Heritage
Antiquities & Archaeologyarchive
Decisive times for underwater archaeology: Who owns the watery past?
There are an estimated three million undiscovered shipwrecks scattered throughout the world’s oceans. UNESCO is calling for a global treaty to protect them. Salvors say it is unrealistic and unworkable.
Unescoarchive
Deliberation over ownership of submerged vessels and their booty at the bottom of the ocean leads to Unesco intervention
An estimated three million shipwrecks lay undiscovered. UNESCO is calling for a global treaty to protect them. Salvors say it is unrealistic and unworkable, despite developments in deep-sea exploration technology
Art marketarchive
Sotheby’s postpones Korean sales sine die
Western twentieth-century art may begin to flow back from Korea
Unescoarchive
UNESCO has named 37 more sites of global importance
A list of the most important additions