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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Exhibition to bring Roman empire to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Treasures from the British Museum and Bristol’s own collection will ‘allow visitors to get close to Roman ancestors’
Bronze exhibition at Royal Academy shows its mettle
Landmark autumn show to feature 150 works across 6,000 years including the Chimera of Arezzo and Trundholm sun chariot
Neanderthals may have been first human species to create cave paintings
Estimates of the age of cave paintings in northern Spain could be the final nail in the coffin of the ‘dumb Neanderthals’ myth
Jeremy Deller’s inflatable Stonehenge gives Glasgow a bounce in its step
The Turner prize winner’s bouncy new interactive artwork, Sacrilege, kicks off the Glasgow international festival of visual art
Stolen paintings recovered in Rome 40 years after art heist
Italian police find stolen paintings hanging in a house in the same district of Rome from where 42 works disappeared
Hampton Court exhibition reveals damned beauties of Stuart era
Catching the eye of King Charles II could bring a woman riches or a phial of poison from a jealous husband