Less than four months remain until the nearly 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry goes on view in its homeland for the first time in nearly a millennium—a historic loan that has nonetheless stirred up controversy. Now, London’s British Museum has unveiled just how it plans to display the UNESCO-designated relic

  The 2,300-room Palace of Versailles just outside of Paris receives a seemingly constant stream of repairs. Just last year, for instance, an American-French coalition launched a restoration inside the state apartment of Sun King Louis XIV. Elsewhere, experts have been restoring one bedroom within the King’s

  On Saturday, Pope Francis unveiled a nativity scene in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall that was created by Palestinian artists from Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. The baby Jesus’s cradle is draped in a traditional Palestinian Keffiyeh, with other elements

  With a new petition, a group of archaeologists are calling on the British Museum to repatriate the Rosetta Stone back to Egypt. Launched in September, the campaign urges Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to submit an official request for the return