Coastal erosion in Normandy means that the Saint-Valery church in Varengeville-sur-Mer may soon disappear

Cathedral building has suffered external damage as bombs land 50m away

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

Novel project will replace lost parts of the structure with hedges of boxwood, myrtle and privet

Modern science and archaeological recontextualisation of the site will answer some long-looming questions, museum director Hartwig Fischer says

New initiative by Save Venice will focus on more than 30 female artists who worked in the region between the 16th and 18th centuries, from Marietta Robusti to Rosalba Carriera

An increase in illegal development and excavations is damaging the structural integrity of the World Heritage Site that has stood for more than 1,000 years

Donors include Saudi Arabia, which gave $30m, and private bodies

The Ludovisi Casino in Rome, with its masterpiece frescoes, is up for auction by the courts, estimate nearly half a billion euro

The ruling BJP has been accused by a rival party of "selling off Delhi's history" following new licensing around historic structures in the capital

Proposal was put forward by 16 Arabic-speaking countries

Reviving 17th-century Tijou screens commissioned by Protestant monarchs William and Mary means undoing decades of damage and haphazard repairs

In a new location in the desert complex, the exhibition will explore ideas of “mirage and oasis”

Plans to revamp the fire-ravaged cathedral with contemporary art and multilingual projections of Bible quotes have been compared to Disneyland

The first ever mosaic illustrating scenes from Homer’s Iliad, it would have decorated an imposing dining and entertainment space within a major villa complex

Excavations at monumental site Karahan Tepe, near the Turkish-Syrian border, suggest that society was established before the dawn of agriculture

A relic of national importance, the man-made cave is all that remains of his villa and gardens—and is only accessible through a school dining hall

Guardians of world’s cultural heritage must mount the parapet and lead in the climate change battle

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