The 50,000-year-old carvings on the Burrup Peninsula include the earliest-known depictions of a human face

Painted scenes and a number of objects were found inside the structures, which were built for Ancient Egyptian officials

The Tapestry Drawing Room at the stately home, which was featured in the Netflix series ‘Bridgerton’, was destroyed in a blaze in 1940. Decades on, it is restored and its tapestries back in place

The incident at Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the Americas, has drawn attention to the lax security at the 600-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site

The finding provides a psychedelic trip into the heart of pre-Incan power at Chavín de Huántar, where psychoactive substances were used in elite ceremonial rituals

The exceptional find at Áspero reveals women’s high status in the ancient Caral civilisation

The American visitor underwent emergency surgery after the incident at the historic landmark

Mahir Polat, the head of Istanbul’s cultural heritage department, was recently released after being arrested along with other key cultural figures

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts

Jimmy Donaldson, who has nearly 400 million followers on the video-streaming platform, shot a viral video in Giza, which may be helping to educate a new audience

Restoration and preservation projects in countries from Sierra Leone to Ukraine are now at risk following US government’s sudden cuts to aid funding

World Monuments Fund is investigating the extent of the damage to religious and cultural buildings after the earthquake struck the Southeast Asian country last week, killing at least 1,700 people—with neighbouring Thailand also affected

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic ruler

Coalition of Cultural Workers says more than three million objects remain in endangered areas

Opposition politicians claim that a proposed amendment to Italy’s Cultural Heritage Code would put historic sites at risk

Political uncertainties may be deterring organisations from funding the €260m worth of restoration work needed to repair and rebuild the Gaza Strip’s wrecked historical sites, but emergency interventions are already underway

The recently restored painting was presented to the former UK prime minister in 1942 and will be exhibited at Chartwell, his family home

Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860

A small casket, said to be a Barniz de Paso work, a largely forgotten form of varnishing, was found at the writer's house in East Sussex

At the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, a new project seeks to update the antiquated archaeological records of thousands of ancient motifs

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are located and honoured

Cultural organisations have all been hit by the Trump administration’s moves—many are now looking to other countries and international institutions to fill the funding gap

In a rare interview, the spiritual leader describes his global approach to helping Islamic communities help themselves, while also restoring their past heritage

The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115m programme

Local and international experts are filling a government void, and have begun the process of mapping and assessing sites

Under former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in October was replaced by Claudia Sheinbaum, 14,000 artefacts were returned over a period of eight years

The spa complex was thought to have been owned by a powerful politician

Industrial farming in Brazil and off-road racing in Chile continue to threaten geoglyphs that are so big, they can only be properly appreciated from the air

Researchers investigating the ancient Caral civilisation must contend with dwindling state support, violent land traffickers and robbers

The Casa della Gemma is one of several buildings in the archaeological park in Campania, Italy, that are being made accessible for a limited period each year