Bulldozing new roads, using buildings as weapons … to the Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, city warfare leaves clues in the very architecture. He’s piecing together the evidence
The Ajanta cave murals: ‘nothing less than the birth of Indian art’
The paintings are possibly the finest surviving picture galleries from the ancient world. Now, the oldest in two of the caves – hidden for decades – have been painstakingly restored to reveal their true beauty
Tomb raider: enter the British Museum’s underground mummy store
From Edgar Allan Poe to Scooby Doo, culture is cursed with the ancient Egyptian dead. Jonathan Jones visits the British Museum’s mummy store to unwrap our fascination
Rome museum opens windows on grand masters during spring heatwave
Works by Caravaggio, Titian and Rubens at risk to Roman traffic after air conditioning packs up at cash-strapped gallery
British Museum’s El Dorado exhibition shines light on ancient Andeans
Colombia’s little-understood pre-Hispanic cultures are revealed in their full complexity with this display of gold artefacts
• British Museum strikes gold with El Dorado show
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Cheapside Hoard of treasure found in London a century ago goes on show
Gems and fine jewels, some from Byzantium, hidden and lost for centuries, go on display at Museum of London
Biggest Viking exhibition in 20 years opens – and this time they’re angry
Recent peaceful Viking rebrands are smashed in a vast and bloodthirsty show that will soon set sail for London
King Croesus’s golden brooch to be returned to Turkey
Lydian Hoard treasure in shape of winged seahorse, sold to pay gambling debts and replaced with a fake, to be taken home
Nazi buddha from space might be fake
Statue said to have been looted by Nazis may well be from space but expert says it was probably made in the 20th century
Malian Islamists attack world heritage site mosques in Timbuktu
Al-Qaida-linked rebels Ansar Dine and Tuareg separatist MNLA destroy sacred door of 15th-century mosque as ‘un-Islamic’