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

As future of London's historic Whitechapel foundry hangs in the balance, artist’s bell will be made elsewhere

Medieval masterpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck is being unveiled today after a three-year treatment

Big enough to cross the Atlantic, the high-tech research vessel Alfred Merlin ushers in a new era for French underwater heritage

Art historian who knew the building best says the Indigenous community who worshipped in the unique 16th-century church should decide what will replace it

Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments

X-rays and computer algorithms preserve the complicated technique of letterlocking, which turn writing paper into envelope

Eyewitnesses say Eritrean military stormed an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Axum, killing hundreds

Ernst August Sr, Prince of Hanover, claims that his son went behind his back to seize control of his estates

Celtic deity from Cambridgeshire sports impeccable hair that is slightly longer at the back

Unesco has expressed alarm that the development will encroach onto the protected zone of the World Heritage site

New examinations of John the Baptist wall paintings in Augsburg cathedral date them to more than 1,000 years ago

Opponents argue that some public statues reinforce racism, chauvinism, sexism and homophobia