Taliban government has backed a new conservation project led by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Aliph

Icom and Aliph’s $250,000 project is providing training and security measures for 22 museums in countries ravaged by war

The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh

Go ahead given to a restoration project to preserve two historic sites associated with the Jewish community that once resided in Herat

Palestinian Museum is using a $480,000 grant from the Aliph Foundation to document and conserve traditional embroidered dresses known as thobes

Artefacts had been "smashed into pieces" by Isis militants when they occupied the Unesco World Heritage site as a training camp

Donors include Saudi Arabia, which gave $30m, and private bodies

Foundation will direct $700,000 to emergency scaffolding, sensors and the drafting of a longer-term conservation plan

Sites of major importance—many in regions already ravaged by conflict—are contending with security problems and funding shortfalls

Louvre collaborates with Lebanon’s antiquities authority on repairs to doors, windows and security system