The late antiquities dealer was accused of profiting off stolen Cambodian antiquities

Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m

The Ukraine territory is one of four illegally annexed on 30 September with decrees by Russian President Vladimir Putin

In a move similar to the Nazis’ self-legalised art thefts, ancient gold treasure, paintings and Prince Potemkin’s mummified remains all risk being “preserved” by “evacuation”

Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away

A curator at the Melitopol Museum of Local History has also been kidnapped, according to local reports

The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive

Family of Gustav Arens also receive French government compensation for a Tintoretto painting and a Dutch landscape

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery wants to work in tandem with the Benin Dialogue Group, which is made up of institutions that hold the majority of the pieces

For first time, advisory team stipulates that work must not be sold for ten years in case evidence emerges that contradicts its ruling

Church valuables were dispersed in 1945, reunited in 1992, and return home in 1993