“To see this happen breaks my heart”, says archaeologist Dr Henry Wright

Thousands of important sites could be marked with metal plaques

Geologists have found the land on the steep slope at the back of the fortress is sliding down at a rate of a centimetre a month

Congress is expected to approve a $71.4 million payment to Unesco, the first US contribution in 18 years

The Acropolis museum is under construction, and the design for the permanent exhibition is in preparation

As Unesco celebrates the 30th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this book analyses the effects of its policies in developing countries

On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, Matsuura explains his reform of Unesco and the return of the US to membership after nearly 20 years

Iraq’s history is our history too

A new show highlights the oft-forgot historical art collections of Poland

Unesco will convene an international meeting next month to discuss reconstruction

“The pillage of such items from Cambodia is an emergency”

However, the US and UK say the it conflicts with existing maritime legislation and Russia, Norway, Turkey, and Venezuela vote no

Despite curators’ protests, the French senate has pushed through a Raphael exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris

Wounded archaeology

English Heritage has carried out a contingency valuation of Stonehenge and discovered that 58% of those polled would be prepared to help finance the site’s improvement

Corrupt military officials in cahoots with Thai art dealers are hacking away at the temples

Looting, conflict and mining have caused terrible destruction

To dig or not to dig?

“A way of thinking that has visible form”

In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.

The Getty's floating conference on the conservation of archaeological sites.

While many details are yet to be fine-tuned, it should be ready to protect Europe's cultural treasures by the end of the year

He plans to develop learning centres, nominate new World Heritage sites, preservation of monuments, and protection of Angkor

Unesco is coordinating a restoration programme for buildings from the Pyramid of Cheops to the Blue Mosque

What is the point of restoring modern art? Is it reasonable to treat a Rauschenberg as if it were a Leonardo?

The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building

The proposal is greeted by suspicion and political posturing within the Italian art and archaeology world and even the Ministry of Culture.

Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks

The Minister for Education and Culture sends list of destruction to Unesco and invokes the 1954 Hague Convention