Standing before the majestic gold, ochre and white frescos of Tutankhamun's tomb, British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves on Monday passionately defended his daring theory that Nefertiti is buried in a secret chamber

VOICED: An elderly woman in Spain has damaged a valuable fresco beyond repair - after taking it upon herself to restore it. SHOWS: Da Vinci 'Jesus' portrait on the wall of a church in Borja before and after restoration; interviews with...

Mexico on Friday holds the international influencer convention Vidcon in Mexico City, welcoming young online celebrities and fans from platforms such as YouTube and TikTok (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN : Racy colour frescoes discovered

SOUNDBITE (Italian) Antonio Paolucci, Director of the Vatican Museums:

"This type of LED lighting guarantees a homogeneous light, a precise light, a light which allows us to understand and see the Sistine Chapel in its...

CLEAN : Party fever in Venice as stars descend for Clooney wedding (2)

A 2.500m2 graffiti fresco sprayed onto the side of a school is about to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest painting created by a woman

A fresco by the artist JR in tribute to Adama Traoré, who died in police custody in 2016, is unveiled on a school wall in the rue Louis Blanc in Paris, a few minutes before a press conference of the Adama committee (Footage by AFPTV via...

Artists are decorating the walls of Kinshasa, painting frescoes across hundreds of metres to raise awareness against the COVID-19 pandemic (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The painted chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines at La Brigue with its 15th century mural frescoes managed to survive unscathed the deadly floods which devastated the Roya valley at the beginning of October (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

1940s: Jar of paintbrushes. Man selects paintbrush and touches its bristles. Man dabs paint and mixes color. Man paints mural.

VOICED : Inauguran replica impresa de Capilla Sixtina en Mexico

CLEAN : Brazilian street artist and team hard at work on Olympic mural

CLEAN : Sistine Chapel takes a trip to Mexico

CLEAN : Italy metro excavations reveal ancient roman barracks

CLEAN : Ancient erotic frescoes get makeover

A former prostitute who became an award winning novelist and filmmaker Virginie Despentes has won a new prize dedicated to boosting the stature of French writers in the English speaking world

VOICED: Rocinha, paz con carnaval

CLEAN: Ancient Italian perfumer celebrates 400-year anniversary

CLEAN: Rembrandt, Raphael works lead Old Masters auction

CLEAN: Knox arrives to hear fate in murder trial appeal

CLEAN : Hong Kong: Protest site becomes traffic free oasis

Artist Guillaume Bottazzi is painting a giant fresco in Brussels to honour Europe

Ivory Coast's cartoonists remember the victims of last year's terrorist attack by painting peace frescos on the side of Bassam's football stadium as part of the country's annual comic festival