Known for being one of Southeast Asia’s best kept secrets, experts say 2026 will be the year that the country of Laos starts ...

I recently returned from northern Iraq, where I witnessed two opposing realities that sharply reveal the clash between cultural heritage protection and transnational antiquities trafficking — an ...

In recent years, museums and cultural institutions have been taking steps to reckon with their legacies while they grapple with the colonial histories of items within their collections. Headlines have ...

Hundreds of works were damaged at the Louvre in Paris when a pipe burst because of flooding, the museum’s deputy general administrator said. The flooding last week damaged at least 300 to 400 works in ...

PARIS — A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian antiquities department at the Louvre, underscoring the deteriorating state of the world's most visited museum just weeks after ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Law enforcement agencies working across several countries dismantled a sophisticated criminal network trafficking stolen cultural goods across Europe, Bulgarian authorities said ...

French sculptor Auguste Rodin may have risen to the kind of renown reserved for the greats who inspired him, like Italian masters Michelangelo and Donatello. But one aspect of his art and life has ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thieves broke into Syria ‘s national museum and stole several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era, officials said Tuesday. The National Museum of Damascus was briefly ...

Egypt has recovered 36 stolen artifacts from the U.S., including rare manuscripts and ancient religious relics. The objects were recovered by the Manhattan D.A., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...