Puruchuco, an ancient Incan complex, sits at the fast-moving edge of Lima's real estate boom, forcing authorities in the Peruvian capital to get creative as they seek to preserve the archeological treasure.

At first glance, the site looks like an empty hill on the city's east side -- a bald spot surrounded by a slum, a new university and a shopping mall scheduled to open soon.

A 600-year-old album of Ming Dynasty Buddhist art and calligraphy sold for $14 million in New York on Thursday, the highest price for a Chinese painting sold outside Asia, Sotheby's said.

The sutras, which had been valued at $100,000-$150,000, were sold after frantic bidding between four would-be buyers in Asia and the United States that lasted 31 minutes, the auction house said.

A Brazilian museum Thursday received 139 works of art, including a painting by Joan Miro, seized from individuals involved in the corruption scandal rocking state oil giant Petrobras.

Works by Brazilian artists Djanira and Heitor dos Prazeres were among the trove that police delivered to the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in the city of Curitiba.

A French court Friday handed down a two-year suspended sentence to a former electrician and his wife, who hid 271 Picasso works in his garage for close to 40 years.

The court in the French Riviera town of Grasse found Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec guilty of possessing stolen goods, after a trial that made headlines in France and abroad.

Twice as many divorced couples are remarrying in China's financial capital Shanghai as did so before fiscal changes made splitting up a way to avoid property taxes, reports showed Friday.

In 2013 China applied a 20 percent capital gains tax on the profits owners make from selling residential property, as part of efforts to rein in rampant speculation and prices that were soaring at the time.

The Musee d'Orsay, Paris's well-known museum hosting many impressionist paintings, has dropped its ban on visitors taking photos of its artworks after France's culture minister openly flouted the restriction.

The museum is now aligning itself with rules in force in other major museums in Paris and around the world, which allow visitors to take photos as long as flashes and tripods aren't used.

A rare manuscript belonging to British mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing went on show in Hong Kong Thursday ahead of an auction in New York where it is expected to fetch at least $1 million. 

The sale of the recently discovered notebook comes at a time of enormous interest in Turing's life and work generated by Hollywood film "The Imitation Game", which won an Oscar in February.

The Louvre, New York's MoMA, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tokyo National Museum, Shakespeare's Globe in Britain and more than 1,400 other museums around the world are coming to Twitter next week.

From Monday, art institutions in 50 countries will be tweeting under the hashtag #MuseumWeek to publicize their collections and to highlight reactions, the U.S.-based social network said in a statement.

The demise of Mexico's enigmatic pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan stemmed from a conflict among the civilization's elite classes, with buildings set ablaze in the clash, according to a study.

The famed pyramids of the Sun and Moon are among the majestic structures that remain at the tourist site near Mexico City, centuries after Teotihuacan's population vanished.

The art collection of the late former chairman of Goldman Sachs is heading to auction.

Christie's says 90 impressionist and post-impressionist works belonging to John Whitehead could bring over $40 million.