In light of the escalating violence in Mali, UNESCO has recently began to urge armed forces to protect Timbuktu’s historic [...]

From an excellent perspective on the cultural decimation in Mali: So much has already been threatened – from the Al-Farouk [...]

UNESCO has recently added 26 new sites to its World Heritage List. In total, five sites were added to the [...]

Armed with Kalashnikovs and axes, Islamists occupying northern Mali destroyed ancient Muslim tombs in the Malian city of Timbuktu last [...]

Germany is returning 20 human skulls to Namibia and issuing a public apology for the events resulting in their possession [...]

Following up on an earlier CPAL article, UN Implores Libya and NATO to Preserve Sites of Ghadamès and Leptis Magna, [...]

On July 13, 2011, US federal prosecutors announced they were charging antiquities dealers in New York, Michigan, and Dubai in [...]

The United Nations has called on Libya and NATO to protect two cultural heritage sites that have come under threat [...]

Egypt’s antiquities ministry has released the final result of the post-revolution inventories, which reveal that 81 archaeological objects are missing [...]

Eighteen days of riots in Egypt has left the Egyptian Museum short of the same number of pieces, with two [...]