The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recently added 24 new properties to its World Heritage Site list. These range from a gold mine in Japan and a ...

Stonehenge and those giant heads on Easter Islands — are enshrined as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. There are nearly 1,200 of them worldwide, places and things that the United Nations Educational ...

These sites have been organized and recognized by the United Nations body UNESCO as world heritage sites, of which there are over 1,100. They are major tourist destinations, drawing in hundreds of ...

These are just a few of the global destinations given World Heritage status by the United Nations Educational ... which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986. The Roman Empire’s largest ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Friday declared Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park a World Natural Heritage Site, making it the South ...

Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch ...

Held every year on 21 May, UNESCO leads the celebration of World Day for Cultural Diversity ... Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations, and the resolution on Culture and ...

It forms part of the Derwent Valley Mills - a world heritage site situated along a 15-mile ... 2001 but that could now be at risk after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

This year has seen a flurry of activities regarding cultural heritage, including registration of the Sado Island gold mine in Niigata Prefecture as a World ... to UNESCO (United Nations ...

World Arabic Language Day is celebrated every year on 18 December since 2012. The date coincides with the day in 1973 that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted Arabic as the sixth ...