Non-profit organisation has big plans to gather data from 500 sites over the next five years

Major grant to expand project that uses images from Corona military satellite system to pinpoint archaeological remains

Following DNA testing, confirmed remains of the last Plantagenet King will be moved from original burial site to Leicester Cathedral

“It’s a granular look at different types of presidential films of the past century,” says one of the festival’s founders

Protesters demand protection for cultural heritage as clashes turn violent

The Wellcome Collection puts its best (false) foot forward

Face recognition software used to spot terrorists may be the answer to identifying unknown sitters in portraits.

Painstakingly documented by Ernest Long, this archive may be all that is left of many

Elegant, humorous, erotic—and liberated

Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks

The Virgin of the Rocks minus fog

Three lawyers and two private detectives are now off the hook

A new use for airport screening technology

A group of the soldiers were on loan to the La Moneda Palace in Santiago

A conservation studio will be opened to educate the public about the costly process of reconstructing Matisse's Acanthes

Work on Civil War submarine leads to pioneering technique

US scholars, conservators and scientists collaborate to prove that a “14th-century manuscript” is a skilled fake

Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection

Researchers see future applications for this cross-over science

The Iranian businessman has an extensive collection of Islamic and modern art

Kaldor has donated work by Rauschenberg, Christo, LeWitt, Koons, Judd, and Gursky, among many others

For the fourth year the Tokyo National Museum has the highest exhibition attendance, but is only 17th in our list of the most visited museums last year

The works were part of an estate the collector inherited from her parents

An attempt to smuggle it was thwarted in the US

Exhibitions will be held for months due to long-term loan

These conservation efforts removed the many years of corrosion built up on the works

Austria and Los Angeles had both hoped to keep the works

14 preparatory sketches of members of the royal family