“To see this happen breaks my heart”, says archaeologist Dr Henry Wright

It is the first time that Iranian courts have issued a harsh punishment for the illicit exportation of goods from an archaeological site

The State collection is the first in Germany to publish the source of works acquired during the Nazi era

Many of the objects, some extant since the first millennium BC, were looted from the site and entered the international market

Prices are rising for a new generation of Indian artists

Peter Eisenman's monument was being coated with an anti-graffiti paint made by Degussa AG, which once owned a stake in a firm that made the hydrogen cyanide gas pellets used at Auschwitz

The exhibition illustrates how monarchical patronage in the 15th century paved the way for an age of artistic accomplishment in Iran