Pueblo officials are moving ever closer to opening North America’s first-ever Leonardo da Vinci Museum. The city recently ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless bronze sculpture to Turkey after the Manhattan D.A. identified it as ...

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

Tracing the histories of antiquities and landmarks that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria, India and Pakistan. One man's extraordinary quest to find out what became of his home in Aleppo ...

The West Mebon Vishnu, one of the largest bronzes found at Cambodia's Angkor archaeological site, is being restored at a laboratory in western France. The 11th century statue, part of the collection ...

While Damascus and Aleppo were long important centers of learning ... a researcher at France’s National Center for Scientific Research, specializing in Islamist movements and the Syrian conflict.

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Local and international experts are filling a government void, and have begun the process of mapping and assessing sites ...

Most of the treasures of its museum—now containing dozens of statues defaced by militants—have been evacuated for safekeeping at the National Museum in Damascus. Gunmen tried to breach the ...