But the project includes a controversial history exhibition that tries to rehabilitate Stalin’s image

Group is urging politicians and business leaders to act before it’s too late

Jewel sold in UK for £300,000 last month has left the country—but did it have an export licence?

Local businesses want to extend access to island Skellig Michael to accommodate eager fans, but preservationists fear that crowds will threaten the medieval ruins and sea bird colonies

Local businesses want to extend access to island Skellig Michael to accommodate eager fans, but preservationists fear that crowds will threaten the medieval ruins and sea bird colonies

Former teacher Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is accused of alleged war crimes for ordering the razing of mausoleums in Timbuktu

The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection

Rare Russian icon originally written off as a “ruin” has finally been restored

Pieces in the Bruce Museum show cover cultural milestones and important figures, from the early Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells to 1967 Supreme Court case about interracial marriage

Team will also provide training for local restorers

Hall of Deir el-Medina to become memorial to Giulio Regeni

Ancient artefacts and colonial-era art repatriated from Argentina and Spain

Museum in Taiz latest casualty of conflict in which more than 40 sites caught in the crossfire of Saudi-led bombing campaign and fundamentalist attacks

Local tourist minister has proposed auctioning tickets to the heritage site to help raise funds

Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy

Move could allow cultural heritage experts to set up Blue Shield headquarters in London

The Musée Guimet has returned the ancient sculpture to Cambodia as part of a five-year loan agreement

The destruction, which went unreported for 16 months, raises fears that other sites have been attacked

Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed

Historic furnishings damaged and around a dozen objects missing or destroyed

Louvre director’s plan calls for co-ordinated response to destruction in Syria and Iraq

Bonnie Burnham made the organisation, which turns 50 this year, into a global powerhouse

New framework stresses return principle but some fear that traffickers in illicit objects could abuse it

While government moves to limit right to strike by reclassifying museums as “essential public services” on a par with schools and hospitals

Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi appeared at the International Criminal Court this week in connection to 2012 attacks on Timbuktu

Saudi Artist Ahmed Mater has captured the rampant redevelopment around the Islamic holy place

Second building reduced to rubble by extremists controlling ancient site in Syria