The Louvre Museum is unveiling a new wing and galleries dedicated to the arts of Islam.

THE enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the Mona Lisa.

Egypt’s antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation’s lost treasures to a new level today by cutting ties with one of the world’s premier museums, the Louvre, over disputed artefacts.

AN “unhinged” Russian woman, allegedly frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality, threw a teacup at the world’s most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, but it emerged unscathed due to its bullet-proof glass cover, the Louvre museum said yesterday.

France today honoured for the first time the victims of its slave trade, 158 years after the taking of people from their African homeland and enslaving them in Caribbean colonies was stopped.

THE Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece of a mysterious woman with a slight smile, is deteriorating and the Louvre Museum said yesterday it would conduct an in-depth technical study to determine why.

The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece of a mysterious woman with a slight smile, is deteriorating and the Louvre Museum said today it would conduct an in-depth technical study to determine why.