An artist was asked by Vatican officials to paint over the image he had created during a restoration last year

Longstanding preservation challenges are likely to be exacerbated by the current political instability

Visitors to Rome will now pay to access the famous fountain and five other historic monuments

Targeted attacks on electric and water supplies amid freezing conditions are further complicating the work of cultural organisations

Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts aboard a sunken 1715 fleet

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people who lived in the ancient city

A reporter for The Art Newspaper has been on the scene with the Heritage Crime Task Force (HCTF), tracking, identifying and repatriating a wide variety of art and antiquities lost to crime and conflict

The Bromley cottage where the singer is thought to have written ‘Space Oddity’ will open to the public later next year

The hoard, uncovered by archaeologists in Norfolk, includes rare animal-headed battle trumpet

Authorities plan to extend the $28bn rail project and relocate Maya structures

Public murals, sculptures and reliefs from the 1950s that adorned an earthquake-damaged building are now in storage

Archaeologists discovered Palaeolithic fire-making tools in a field in the east of England

The ambitious Lima 2035 project will revitalise the Peruvian capital’s architectural heart, a Unesco World Heritage Site, for its 500th birthday

Pit diggers may have been trying to connect with the underworld, archaeologist Vincent Gaffney says

The Union of Architects of Serbia has shared an open letter of concern regarding the demolition of Belgrade’s Generalštab Modernist Complex

The newly opened museum currently allocates a percentage of its daily ticket limit to both Egyptians and foreigners

The structure, once described as a “sepulchre of crime”, has undergone extensive repairs—and now has a “living roof”

The UK charity has responded to a resolution put forward by Restore Trust, calling for its historic properties to be protected against ‘any eventuality’

A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson linked the caving in of Rome’s Torre dei Conti—which led to the death of a worker—to Italy’s support for Ukraine, sparking backlash

Following a recent conference, discussions are underway to rehabilitate the ancient Syrian city, including its museum and artefacts

The 3,500-year-old stone head was found to have been “stolen and illegally exported from Egypt” after a rare tipoff from a member of the public

As Russian attacks continue, art is being made, commissioned—and saved—by citizens and organisations

A team has used 3D reconstructions of lost buildings to gain insight on the richness of life above ground in the ancient city

As the truce between Israel and Hamas takes hold, Gazans begin to focus on reconstructing their homes and heritage

The discovery indicates that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle persisted in the highlands for thousands of years longer than was previously thought

A pillar featuring detailed facial features was unearthed in Karahan Tepe near the Syrian border

The work, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art

A global collaboration led by Sharjah has established the Faya Palaeolandscape as a cornerstone in the study of early human migration across the Arabian Peninsula

Recent changes to the grant regime for listed places of worship are a UK heritage crisis in the making

Environmental damage is increasingly visible at the ruins of the former trading hub, located in modern-day Tunisia