The collection was assembled by the textile historian Widad Kamel Kawar and significantly bolsters the Toronto museum’s holdings of materials from the region

A newly discovered archaeological site has revealed a massive rock face covered in art that is believed to be ancient

Unesco has increased support following confirmed damage to protected archaeological sites across southern Lebanon

The six shortlisted artists, each representing a different region, will be featured in an exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Canada in September

The Tel Aviv-based group Shurat Hadin is urging the museum in Winnipeg to pause its upcoming exhibition on the Nakba and its legacy to allow for a “legal and scholarly review”

A contractor for the Department of Homeland Security destroyed a 1,000-year-old etching in the sand of the Sonoran Desert

Drew Hayden Taylor’s “The Undeniable Accusations of Red Cadmium Light”, which recently debuted in Vancouver, interrogates fraud in several forms

This marks a return to Vancouver for the Brazilian curator Marcello Dantas, who organised a Vik Muniz project in the city as part of the biennale’s 2013-15 edition

The works, which span prehistory to the time of contact with Spanish colonisers, were identified in Hidalgo state during construction of a passenger train line

Built during the 2nd century, the circular building found in northern Sinai may have been dedicated to the god Pelusius

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe

The manuscript pages, prints and calligraphy had been seized by Canadian authorities as they arrived in Vancouver from Istanbul

Both the Toronto Arts Foundation and the Azrieli Foundation maintain that the end of the funding relationship is unrelated to recent protests; activists are framing the split as a victory

New research has confirmed the site of the giant ancient metropolis, but further archaeological work has been delayed due to issues such as travel restrictions

Convicted fraudster’s sentencing pushed back amid widening dispute between family, foundation and authenticators

An Israeli airstrike caused “material damage” to the entrance of the Unesco World Heritage site according to the Lebanese ministry of culture

Cultural sites and museums in Israel have closed and have been instructed to move their collections into bomb shelters

The gifted works are from Shore’s “Uncommon Places” series and make the gallery one of the largest collections of his photos in the world

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD

While local officials hailed the petroglyph as the potential linchpin of a heritage tourism to the region, archaeologists point to a lack of thorough analysis

Campaign groups have claimed the proposal violates international law, while Israel maintains it is about taking responsibility for and protecting Jewish heritage

The Canadian painter is the subject of a major exhibition of her landscapes, inspired by British Columbia

Longstanding preservation challenges are likely to be exacerbated by the current political instability

The institution will also overhaul its committee structure in response to the scandal

Two committee members also resigned after the vote, which unravelled amid allegations of “antisemitism” over Goldin’s support of Palestinians

Shaped by the austerity of her Mennonite upbringing and the bustling Vancouver art scene of the 1960s and 70s, she developed a playful, poignant and exacting visual language

A man in British Columbia had alleged that Morrisseau, a renowned First Nations artist who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, had assaulted him the year before his death

More than half the names originally planned to be inscribed on the Ottawa monument have been linked to Nazis

Archaeologists hope that the space, closed for more than ten years, will create positive change for the country’s heritage

Dozens of buildings ravaged by Isis in the northern Iraqi city have now been restored