UNESCO's World Heritage Committee named a site in the Gaza Strip — Saint Hilarion Monastery, or Tell Umm Amer — to both its "World Heritage" and "World Heritage In Danger" lists in late July. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italy is raising a glass and saying "salute" after becoming the first country in history to have an entire cuisine added to UNESCO ...

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...

France is a diverse country with thousands of years of history, distinctive cities, and incredible landscapes, so it’s no surprise that France is home to a large collection of UNESCO World Heritage ...

" Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to ...

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This week, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, comprising the United States, India, Japan, and Australia, will face its first test. Unexpectedly, it will come at the UNESCO World Heritage ...

Lunenburg is the oldest town in Canada, and one of the very few UNESCO-listed urban communities in the country (another is Quebec City). This colonial port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia is a ...

Made possible through the generous support of the Government of Japan, this ambitious digitization project (2017–2019) marked a major step in safeguarding and opening access to UNESCO’s documentary ...