The statue gives unique insight into the understudied ancient Lydian civilisation, Turkey’s culture ministry says

A new study based on aerial surveys suggests the pre-Columbian Aquiry civilisation had a much more developed and dispersed footprint than previously thought

The Asper family’s foundation last donated to the museum in 2023, and Gail Asper says she has indefinitely paused a personal gift of C$50,000 over a display about the violent displacement of Palestinians

A lawsuit related to the collapse of the developer Coromandel Properties includes an art collection purchased for $4.9m that was used as collateral for a loan

Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life

Archaeologists hope that further research of the site will reveal more about the lives of the people who lived in the ancient city of Thebes

Numerous heritage sites were among the 58,000 buildings destroyed by the deadly twin earthquakes last month

The country’s heritage minister criticised curatorial choices in “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, drawing widespread rebukes including from the leader of the New Democratic Party

Met with opposition and outrage from the moment it was announced, the show gathers historical objects and images, poetry, contemporary art and video interviews

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