Dr Ittai Gradel made global headlines after exposing the thefts of many artefacts from the British Museum.

An overstretched team are looking for a professional to help recover hundreds of missing items before they are destroyed or melted down

The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s un...

Apple TV greenlit a second season of Down Cemetery Road starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, adapted from Mick Herron's PI novels.

More than 600 artefacts from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection are taken.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology, Pope Leo XIV invites students and faculty to engage in cultural ...

Move comes after French scientists issued urgent appeal to prevent La Pascaline from leaving the country A rare example of the first functioning calculating machine in history looks likely to stay in France after Christie’s withdrew it from auction pending a definitive ruling from a Paris court on whether or not it can be exported. La Pascaline, developed by the French mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal in 1642, when he was just 19, and billed as “the most important scientific instrument ever offered at auction”, had been expected to fetch more than €2m (£1.8m). Continue reading...

62 items from the ethnological collections of the Vatican Museums will return to their place of origin, Canada.

The auction house makes itself at home in the landmark Breuer building.

It’s a quaint museum in a coastal town whose aim is to educate Scotland about its rich maritime heritage. Housed within an A-listed Victorian building in Irvine, the Scottish Maritime Museum is a popu...

Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was in Vietnam on Sunday, reaffirming a partnership built on healing the scars of the Vietnam War in

As treasure hunters pursue gold and silver, they both aid and compete with archeologists.

Items stolen from the Oakland Museum of California included Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks.

Employees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced they are forming a union. The effort comes six months before the opening its new $720-million David Geffen Galleries and just days before it...

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The Louvre’s security systems were rated as outdated and inadequate by an official report written before the theft of crown jewels from the museum on Sunday morning. The failings laid bare in the repo...

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

Donald Trump’s unprecedented measures to take control of The Smithsonian Institution have rattled staffers, enraged artists, and even put the future of its vast collection in doubt.

Amer Matar, the Syria Prisons Museum co-director and a former political prisoner whose testimony helped secure the first international war crimes conviction against a Syrian official, was held after a...

The shattered remains of antique pottery and shards of ancient statues lie among broken glass and bullet casings at Sudan’s National Museum, not far from where the Blue and White Nile meet in the capital Khartoum.

In the scorched courtyard of Sudan's National Museum in Khartoum, a towering black granite statue of Kush Pharaoh Taharqa now stands alone, surrounded by shards of broken glass and shattered stone.Sin...

Could the Manhattan district attorney's seizures be putting people off sending artworks to the city?

Getty is introducing its first-ever family podcast, If Objects Could Talk.

Ashraf Eldarir gave up being doctor in Egypt to earn more selling stolen ancient artefacts in US

Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market.