The National Roman Museum's director Stéphane Verger shares the radical new plans that will revamp four landmark museum and heritage sites in Italy

As country is mired in economic and political turmoil, major upgrading project forges ahead with restoration of important sites at the ancient heart of Lahore

Icom and Aliph’s $250,000 project is providing training and security measures for 22 museums in countries ravaged by war

Many archaeological landmarks and religious sites in the region have been heavily damaged or destroyed

Works will be restored and opened to the public to mark 900th anniversary of the St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket

Both British queens owned the same prayerbook, curators at Hever Castle in England have found

Around 55 messages composed by the monarch reveal her condition under captivity and negotiations for her release

Attack by far-right supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro has left some works of art beyond repair

Gaziantep Castle has been heavily damaged by quakes that have killed more than 1,000 people

New invisible technology is being used to generate electricity at the archaeological site—and will also be used for other historic buildings in Italy, Portugal and Croatia

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomes the project which tells ‘the story of ancient Britain’

The decision "recognises the outstanding universal value of the site and the duty of all humanity to protect it", the UN cultural organisation states

The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt

Existing plans to redevelop the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which will transform its entrance, demonstrate how newer listed buildings are treated with less respect than older heritage sites

Art historian and curator Konstantin Akinsha asserts that Russian attempts to claim succession from the ancient Scythians date back to the 18th century

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

Newly-refurbished home belonged to former slaves who made their wealth in the wine business

America left the United Nations heritage organisation in 2019 after its members voted to accept Palestine as a member state

United Nations culture organisation has not acknowledged the January 2022 request to add Afghanistan's Bagh-e Babur to the World Heritage List

Analysis of 16th-century, hand-drawn maps finds that the reds pigments were only available from the late 19th century

A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned

Researcher Emma Bunker aided the notorious looter in sourcing and selling Southeast Asian antiquities

Expert stabilisation plan means the Italian landmark has continued to straighten itself

New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh

The deposit of perfectly preserved statues in the heart of Tuscany reveals six centuries of cultural and political evolution

Boycotted Russia resigned as chair of the World Heritage Committee last month

The artefact survived both Nimrud's decimation in 2016 and the fall of the Assyrian empire in the 7th century