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Archaeological institution hurriedly removes nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’An official in charge of nearly three decades of archaeological finds in Gaza has described how the artefacts were hurriedly evacuated from a Gaza City b…
Wiltshire landmark assessed for damage after red fabric pinned across it to form England flagA 53-metre white horse cut into a Wiltshire hillside about 350 years ago is to be assessed for damage by heritage experts after red fabric was pinned across it…
Perceval Parsons’ plans for station put on sale to mark 200th anniversary of first public passenger railwayThe vaulted arches of New York’s Grand Central station are recognisable even to those who have never taken a train into the Big Apple. But they c…
Objects including three-metre spears were collected in late 19th and early 20th centuries and donated to city’s museumFor decades, they have languished in storage in the basement of a museum in the English West Country.Finally, an extraordinary collect…
Oxfordshire manor once planned as hub for global technologists and philosophers now offered at £5.95mWytham Abbey, a 15th-century grade I-listed manor that was once planned as a hub for technologists and philosophers to solve some of the world’s toughe…
Organiser of petition says French president ignoring expert advice that artefact too fragile to be transported to UKThe Bayeux tapestry is so fragile that transporting it risks irreparable damage, French experts have said, as a petition urging Emmanuel…
Exhibition explores Bank’s former grandeur and its rebuilding under Sir Herbert Baker that began 100 years agoA century ago the wrecking ball demolished the halls, courtyards, arches and domes of one of London’s best-loved buildings in what the archite…
Search for artwork seen in estate agent’s photo continues after police raid on house finds tapestry hanging in its placeArgentinian police have said they will continue hunting for an old master painting looted by the Nazis and spotted by chance in an e…
Items buried at Great Ormond Street hospital dug up early to make way for construction of children’s cancer centreMore than 30 years after it was buried, a time capsule compiled by Diana, Princess of Wales and two children to represent life in the 1990…
Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos AiresMore than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, a portrait by an Italian master has been spotted on the w…