After the Indian culture ministry intervened to halt a sale of the Piprahwa gems, Sotheby’s has sold the trove to a Mumbai conglomerate

A third of the newcomers have roots in prehistory, including mysterious megaliths in France and a region in Australia that is home to some of the world’s oldest petroglyphs

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, found the marking on an artefact due to go on display in an exhibition this autumn

The State Department says that Unesco membership does not square with its “America-first” outlook

The Mexica city’s founding is celebrated with new commemorations, reinforcing a nationalist focus on Indigenous identity

Aeneas, named after a hero from Greek and Roman mythology, can calculate when inscriptions were carved and predict lost text

The development, which was due to address the genocide waged against Aboriginal Tasmanians by British colonists, has lost out to government-backed sports venue

Jane and Louise Wilson’s work will go on show at site of Roman temple in the heart of London

Peñico opened to the public earlier this week, following eight years of research led by the archaeologist Ruth Shady

Centre des Monuments Nationaux has also signed agreements with the National Trust, the National Trust for Scotland and English Heritage

A section of the ancient complex, the age of which has long been debated, has been found to date back to between 4600 and 4300 BC

CSMVS's mobile museum venture, created in collaboration with an exhibition it curated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Berlin State Museums and the British Museum, examines the underlying connections between ancient civilisations

Civil servants felt frustrated after Prime Minister John Major returned the 13th-century artefact 30 years ago, newly released papers reveal

Little is known about the vast collection of art and artefacts the Hudson’s Bay Company amassed from its founding in 1670, but experts believe it includes many important pieces of Canada’s First Nations and colonial heritage

UK government official said that trees should be planted on Cerne Abbas Giant's sizeable member

Nick Merriman oversaw a controversial restructure of the UK historic site charity

It is yet to be confirmed how the three recipient institutions will collaborate on a subject of great importance to Venice and the world

Cinoa's new president hopes for a more co-ordinated approach as game-changing legislation comes into effect

Jun Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some previous scholarship—they appear to have been damaged for “pragmatic and ritualistic reasons”

The show at Leeds’s Royal Armouries Museum also features everyday objects such as surgical equipment and souvenirs from visits to see battles at amphitheatres

One of the most famous sites in Barcelona has been given a €3.5m makeover

These unique monuments to a coastal way of life, some of them dating to the US’s colonial period, appear on the 2025 World Monuments Watch list alongside historic sites in countries experiencing war and drought

According to local news reports, emergency protocols have been enacted to safeguard cultural objects and heritage sites amid conflict with Israel

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