The restituted human remains include 17 skulls and one sample of hair, which were taken from the island during a German expedition in 1882

The Mount Amel Castles and the archaeological ruins of Sebastia are among six new heritage sites considered to be in danger.

The objects, a stone mask and an intricate ceramic figure, are scheduled to be auctioned Thursday morning in New York

Over the last decades, provenance studies have become an integral aspect of art history and cultural heritage studies. Yet, the provenance of written artefacts has remained understudied, even though t...

Unesco has increased support following confirmed damage to protected archaeological sites across southern Lebanon

How did $65 million of allegedly stolen antiquities wind up in two of the world’s greatest museums?

Satellite imagery confirms that the regime demolished the church in Artsakh’s former capital city of Stepanakert.

Despite a supreme court ruling, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya insists removal could damage the “Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art”

The case was decided in New York after 11 years of court battles

Italian police say that four hooded criminals broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, housed in a rural villa south of Parma, on 22 March

A man caused $240,000 worth of 'catastrophic damage' to the Chihuly Glass Museum in Seattle.

Convicted fraudster’s sentencing pushed back amid widening dispute between family, foundation and authenticators

Ukraine has requested the extradition of the State Hermitage Museum’s Alexander Butyagin, who seized artefacts including ancient Greek coins

Paintings by Monet, Matisse, Dalí and Picasso were snatched in a cinematic heist from Rio de Janeiro’s Museu da Chácara do Céu in 2006

The former staff member used razors to scrape off labels on prints to avoid identification, before he was stopped as he left the museum with 35 works of art

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Campaign groups have claimed the proposal violates international law, while Israel maintains it is about taking responsibility for and protecting Jewish heritage

The robbery of the Doesburg Silver Museum is the latest in a spate of precious metal heists in the Netherlands

A reporter for The Art Newspaper has been on the scene with the Heritage Crime Task Force (HCTF), tracking, identifying and repatriating a wide variety of art and antiquities lost to crime and conflic...

The sale of a Chinese vase to Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani was cancelled by a French court over questions about its provenance.

The suspect reportedly climbed the bronze sculpture and broke off the French heroine’s weapon with a snap.

Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.

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

The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

Cambodia reached out to the family of Emma C. Bunker, an art historian who died in 2021 and who sat on the board of Denver Art Museum, for records.

Earlier this month, Sasha Suda filed a civil suit against the Philadelphia Art Museum. On Thursday, the museum filed its response.

The recently passed federal budget includes a pledge to provide artists royalties when their work is resold on the secondary market

The Vatican is working with the Canadian Catholic Church to return Indigenous artefacts

The work, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art

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...

This study examines political biases in ChatGPT-4o’s interpretations of memoryscapes linked to dictatorial regimes in Spanish-speaking countries. Using a least-to-most prompting model and a Discour...

The restitution is the first to take place under a 2023 French law on the return of human remains

Prosecutors have revealed evidence that suggests three golden armbands and a €4.3 million helmet—belonging to the Dacian civilisation—have not been melted down

White House cites Unesco’s focus on ‘divisive social and cultural causes’ in latest withdrawal from global bodies

Barbara de Dozsa had previously argued that she owned the painting as the limit for claims had passed

‘No damage’ to artefact after incident forced Perth Museum to evacuate visitors

Wehrmacht officer gave relic to German citizen whose family contacted Italian heritage officials after his death

While loans between museums are exempt from the additional requirements for proof of legal export from the country of origin and provenance documentation, those from private collectors will be affecte...

A musician from the London Philharmonic Orchestra said his ‘heart exploded’ when the instrument, made in 1740, went missing