The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt

Existing plans to redevelop the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which will transform its entrance, demonstrate how newer listed buildings are treated with less respect than older heritage sites

Art historian and curator Konstantin Akinsha asserts that Russian attempts to claim succession from the ancient Scythians date back to the 18th century

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

Newly-refurbished home belonged to former slaves who made their wealth in the wine business

America left the United Nations heritage organisation in 2019 after its members voted to accept Palestine as a member state

United Nations culture organisation has not acknowledged the January 2022 request to add Afghanistan's Bagh-e Babur to the World Heritage List

Analysis of 16th-century, hand-drawn maps finds that the reds pigments were only available from the late 19th century

A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned

Researcher Emma Bunker aided the notorious looter in sourcing and selling Southeast Asian antiquities

Expert stabilisation plan means the Italian landmark has continued to straighten itself

New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh

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

Boycotted Russia resigned as chair of the World Heritage Committee last month

The artefact survived both Nimrud's decimation in 2016 and the fall of the Assyrian empire in the 7th century

The German government has pulled out from the Kabul Riverfront Transformation project, which was to modernise parts of the city's historic centre and install an art gallery

An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future

Issues such as free museums and safeguarding heritage are splitting the opinions of two officials in the Brothers of Italy party which swept to power in September

An exhibition in Miami of historic photographs marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of Florida’s famous Everglades National Park

The decision to keep the Venetian lagoon's barriers open and allow more ships into the port had left the church without protection and vulnerable to water

Conservation projects that have been paused due to sanctions on the new government may restart after Unesco intervention

Images show disappearance of churches and cemeteries in the Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan regions at the centre of the largely ignored conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

A local grassroots group has begun a fundraising campaign to save a piece of local Black history in North Philadelphia

Nottinghamshire site central to the Robin Hood legend received £33m in public funding less than a year ago, but is now facing liquidation after being rocked by a series of internal misconduct allegations

Conservationists raise concerns that by cleaning the Paris cathedral's fire-damaged interior stonework it will become "artificially bright"

Workers are increasingly turning to collective bargaining, industrial action and representation by trade unions

The digital heritage preservation company Factum Foundation and conservation group Re-Form Heritage plan to buy the site and hold it in perpetuity as a working foundry

Survey by British Archaeological Jobs Resource says the average net income within the field is £21,820

"Artemisia UpClose" project at Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, will use state-of-the-art technology to show the original painting