Ancient artefacts were on loan to Amsterdam museum when Crimea was annexed in 2014

Town of Riace is planning a museum, while a new investigation hopes to confirm whether there are more ancient Greek statues to be found

Plus, Venice's tourism problem and Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen

Since the annexation in 2014, Russia has been persecuting the Tatar population and appropriating monuments

The Bay Area sound artist is working on a contemporary sound installation in the fire-ravaged cathedral's bell tower

Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells

Cultural heritage workers estimate they have five years to secure the heritage site’s contents before it is destroyed to extract the ore

The Karnofsky Store, a Jewish family’s former tailor shop where the young jazz legend found early encouragement for his musical talent, has been reduced to rubble

The property, bequeathed to the district by a physician friend of the artist for use as an arts centre, has been neglected for decades

From the Bamiyan Valley to an ancient spiritual centre of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism, former Unesco senior official Francesco Bandarin looks at the embattled country’s most important landmarks

Composer has funded a two-year, £60m renovation of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to turn it into a public gallery and heritage attraction

Dig uncovers a wealth of objects, including jewellery probably worn by Queen Cynethryth, an influential female ruler likely to have been buried in the village

The music, poetry, traditions and crafts that are kept alive by communities are especially vulnerable under the group’s ultra-conservative rule and the economic chaos of continuing conflict

British Council in Afghanistan among international heritage organisations that have suspended operations during the conflict

Historic town, a holy site for millions of Orthodox Christians, caught up in widening Tigray conflict

The birthplace of the Olympic Games is one of the many ancient sites at risk as record temperatures scorch country

The rambling 365-room mansion is being rescued from near collapse, starting with its tea house

Judge concludes that UK transport secretary failed to consider alternatives to the scheme or assessed the ‘risk of harm’ to the Unesco site

Global heritage body's decision boosts Saudi government's efforts to promote an open image of the country

A full-scale truss fit for the Paris cathedral will be built in Washington, DC this summer as part of a teaching project by Handshouse Studio

The UK city has been stripped of its World Heritage status. Walter Aubrey Thomas, who designed some of its most famous buildings, would have objected, says his great-grandson

A team from the Cologne City Archive has sent emergency aid to Stolberg

Newly reopened 18th-century Church of the Transfiguration, topped with 22 domes, is said to have been built without a single nail

For decades, short-termism and conflicting interests have prevented a sustainable plan for Venice from being developed or enacted

Unesco and citizen action groups have campaigned for the move for years

Scholars believe the 15th-century decorative work was whitewashed in the Tudor era to obliterate the Roman Catholic imagery

Polish team used remote sensing techniques to detect the building, the largest of its kind in the region, as well as a possible tomb of an archbishop

Move addresses "investment backlog" for upgrades to cultural sites in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia

Of the 53 sites on the list—which will be reviewed at a committee meeting next month—only four are in the West

The city took a big financial hit during the pandemic. But as things improve, locals are pushing for a more sustainable form of tourism

World Heritage Site status may also be removed from Liverpool's waterfront after excessive development

Venetians are leaving the city in thousands because rents are unaffordable, while more than 11% of social housing stands empty

Former UK shadow home secretary led protests at the Museum of the Home in Hoxton, which reopened to the public at the weekend

Oriel College said it had no plans to “begin the legal process for relocation” of the monument

Museums who partner with China need to know about the violence, says panel investigating alleged crimes against humanity

The controversial site has become a pilgrimage for far-right supporters

Locals say the construction will be a "wart" on the way to Pont du Gard, a Unesco world heritage site, and will harm the surrounding environment

New report by special police force finds increase in security and surveillance technology has dissuaded dealers in stolen art

Signatories of the open letter supporting ten point-plan to save La Serenissima also include the artist Anish Kapoor and The Art Newspaper's founding editor Anna Somers Cocks

Members of Parliament send warning to China ahead of motion to acknowledge human rights abuses against minorities in Xinjiang region

Covert destruction of Armenian-Christian heritage in Azerbaijan’s autonomous republic of Nakhichevan has been exposed in recently surfaced Cold War spy imagery taken by the US in the 1970s, published here for the first time

Street artist hints he might make a photo collage at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site as part of exhibition organised by Art D’Egypte

Former 1921 dime store, which peacefully desegregated its lunch counter in 1960, will house an Alamo museum

Victor Arnautoff’s large-scale 1960s mosaics on public buildings in Mariupol are threatened by neglect and a “decommunisation” campaign

The reaction to the destruction of Al Rabooa mosque highlights changing attitudes to the conservation of Modernist and post-Modernist buildings in the kingdom

Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows

Respect for religious sites and religions—not military might—is the only way forward, he says

Decision has drawn wave of criticism from culture and heritage professionals, accusing government of ‘money-grabbing philistinism’

Mysterious image still holds some secrets however

The funerary piece was illicitly excavated from the ancient city of Cyrene which is under threat from property developers

Archaeologists object to covering the amphitheatre's unique underground space and point to more vital restoration projects in the country

Painting is the only surviving contemporary image of the monarch

Many are questioning how Prime Minister Narendra Modi can justify his "vanity project" as hospitals are overwhelmed with patients

Archaeologists fear the structural changes aimed to improve access to the Unesco site will “dramatically” change its form

New research for British Museum exhibition means panels depicting St Thomas Becket's healing miracles will be correctly reassembled after centuries in the wrong order

The terrorist group destroyed 350 churches and persecuted Iraqi Christians in 2014

Sometimes the wistful memory of time long past is all one needs to spend a few hundred thousand.

Conservation experts and lobby group launch a Green Paper to put Europe’s heritage at the heart of the EU’s greening policy

The 3,000-year-old site is remarkably preserved, with pottery, daily tools and human remains found among its intact walls

After a £4.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and years of restoration, the historic priory is set to open this summer