More than 40,000 hexagonal columns shape the mystical landscape at Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 ... the reserve. Kids can let their inner ...

Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reviews nominations for and selects new sites of “outstanding universal value” to its World Heritage List.

Almost 30 new World Heritage Sites have been announced by the UN’s culture body, including ancient Roman temples in France, an island off the coast of Tunisia and an archaeological site in Cambodia.

The sites are spread across three counties: On Sept. 19 at the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee the Hopewell Mounds were officially added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The sites ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has wrapped up its deliberations related to sites that are in danger and began adding new sites on Saturday to its prestigious World Heritage List. Sites in ...

Venice, with its maze of canals and historic buildings, won't be added to a list of endangered World Heritage sites — for now. At a meeting to discuss World Heritage sites underway in Riyadh ...

the 46th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee announced World Heritage status for three new sites in South Africa, two in the Western Cape and one in KwaZulu-Natal, as part of the South ...

“Locals don’t want to talk about being a World Heritage site anymore and they feel shortchanged. Our houses are shabby, we have the money, but we cannot fix them.” “We are trapped by their ...

The World Heritage Committee has final say over whether locations are included on the prestigious list, which recognizes sites with natural and cultural assets of global significance. There are ...

World Heritage marine sites are safe havens for many IUCN Red Listed threatened and vulnerable species. They serve as vital stopovers for migratory species and reflect some of the world's highest ...

Eight earthworks – Newark’s Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks, five earthworks at the Hopewell Cultural National Historical Park, near Chillicothe, and Fort Ancient, in Warren County, became Ohio’s ...