T he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated more than 700 unique ...

World Heritage Sites could and should play a more active role in promoting a vision of global peace, heritage experts at ...

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 ...

World Heritage Sites could and should play a more active role in promoting a vision of global peace, heritage experts at Newcastle University say.

World Heritage sites are often located within land managed by indigenous peoples whose land use, knowledge and cultural and spiritual values and practices are related to heritage. Inspired by the ...

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 ...

It is adjacent to the border of India’s Sundarbans World Heritage site inscribed in 1987. The site is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant ...

Locations deemed World Heritage sites are of "outstanding universal ... There's also an incentive for developing nations to get destinations added to the World Heritage list to boost tourism.

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 ...