Stefan Guzy has scoured archives from the Holy Roman Empire and believes he has traced back the ownership of the mysterious cipher book

Gregor Weber's biography "Johannes Vermeer: Faith, Light and Reflection" also supports the controversial view that Vermeer used a camera obscura

A Spanish archaeological mission found the tombs late last year

New additions to the mysterious Nazca Lines have been identified by scientists from Japan's Yagamata University through the use of aerial drone footage and artificial intelligence

On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master

The deposit of perfectly preserved statues in the heart of Tuscany reveals six centuries of cultural and political evolution

Neolithic bench discovered in Turkey shows a discernible narrative progression, and dates to around 11,000 BC

The Art Newspaper charts the existence of the world's most expensive work of art, from 1478 to today

The coin was minted 70 years before the first documented arrival of non-Viking Europeans to the region

The artefacts, found at ancient Roman baths, are among the most “significant bronzes ever produced in the history of the ancient Mediterranean”

The work, housed at The Hague's Museum Bredius, will now undergo further study by Rijksmuseum experts

The seven alabaster reliefs document the military conquests of the Neo-Assyrian King Sennacherib

The downgrading follows a study of the six paintings in the museum's collection thought to be by the Dutch master, which are now the subject of an exhibition detailing the findings

More than 500 standing stones were catalogued by archaeologists working on the 7,000-year-old site

Cambodian government says stone artefacts kept at San Francisco home of billionaire Lindemann family match those looted from sacred site

A photograph of the "egg" has yet to be released, leading to heightened speculation

The works were discovered during preparatory forensic analysis for a new exhibition in Philadelphia

The x-ray will be displayed in a lightbox in the forthcoming exhibition A Taste for Impressionism at National Galleries of Scotland

A series of sketches for the artist's monumental SDI painting of 1986 are believed to be the "only studies for an abstract painting to have survived"

The work’s last public appearance was on 10 March 1838 in a Christie’s London sale. “It’s like a 300-year-old brand new painting,” says dealer Christopher Bishop.

Exhibition of the Mexican artist’s documents tell of often fraught dealings with doctors and the support she received from friends

An unattributed painting in Lincolnshire's Burghley House bears a striking resemblance to the work of Hans Eworth

Lost Wax, now valued between $10m and $20m, was stored in a private vault for four decades

Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi

The work, depicting the artist's uncle at a piano, will also go on long-term loan to Leopold Museum in Vienna

Francis Hines was a well-known artist most famous for wrapping the Washington Square Park arch in fabric, but after he died in relative obscurity, in 2016, his work was nearly lost forever

The artist’s imprint was probably left when he carried the picture back to the asylum

The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years

An expedition team has located the famed shipwreck in what has been described as a "milestone in polar history"

Sinister besuited figure, painted in Monaco in 1946, was only recently rediscovered