The Kurdish artist delves into the histories of looted artefacts and questions the ethics of their existence in Western museums

The museum had been pressured and petitioned for years to return objects tied to smuggler Douglas Latchford

Plus, the AI copyright debate in the US and the end of China’s museum boom

Mohamad Alcharihi faces up to two years in prison and will be sentenced at the end of August

Forged objects have been identified among the 60 antiquities returned amid much fanfare earlier this year

Researcher Emma Bunker aided the notorious looter in sourcing and selling Southeast Asian antiquities

An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future

The Ukraine territory is one of four illegally annexed on 30 September with decrees by Russian President Vladimir Putin

Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds

Cambodian government says stone artefacts kept at San Francisco home of billionaire Lindemann family match those looted from sacred site

Plus, the dark truth of the Marcos family’s extravagance and Ruth Asawa at Modern Art Oxford

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

The ancient inscriptions were in a hidden tunnel complex found by looters before archaeologists carried out a rescue mission

Meeting, organised by France, aims to define new proposals to be adopted by the European Commission

Collaborative research by major German institutions may expose huge amounts of Chinese objects taken during Boxer Rebellion

New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

The 13 Mayan objects were handed back in a ceremony in Berlin today

Before the discovery of the more than 50 painted blocks, “the richness of Mannaean civilisation had not been appreciated”, expert says

Busby auction house confirms it has "negotiated a settlement" after Ethiopian officials requested the return of items stolen by British troops in a brutal 1868 battle

The 17th-century oba head was plucked from the Nigerian National Museum and given to Elizabeth II as a thank-you gift

The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site

The funerary piece was illicitly excavated from the ancient city of Cyrene which is under threat from property developers

Around 160 institutions hold looted Benin artefacts, but how many are prepared to give them back? We asked museums in five countries for their position on restitution

Do your research and and check whether you unwittingly own stolen works, otherwise it could tarnish your reputation

South London museum has released new policies on restitution but says it will need to seek legal advice about the right to return artefacts

The decision on whether to return the painting, which hangs in Dusseldorf’s Kunstpalast, will be made by the city assembly in April

Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray

The sculpture of an oba’s head was “acquired in a way that we now consider to have been extremely immoral,” the university says

Deputies rejected senators' proposal for a national council to advise the government on future restitution claims

The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive