The ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Syria’s central Homs province, stands as a haunting reminder of ...

The Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Around the Alps in Switzerland was just named the most stunning UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

Proposed biocultural reclassification of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As of July 2024, the World Heritage List (WHL) includes 1,223 sites, of which 159 (13%) are classified as cultural landscapes ...

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), located in the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean, is the largest UNESCO World Heritage Site by area, spanning 408,250 square kilometers.

The first phase of experimentation in iron making and shipbuilding ... as well as earthworks and large stone circles having ...

With this latest addition, the state now boasts 18 sites in UNESCO's recognized lists, comprising 15 in the Tentative List and 3 in the Permanent World Heritage List.

Göbeklitepe, known as the 'zero point of history' with its 12,000-year history and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ...

Sparkling, quiet, snow blanketed--is this fairyland for real? These were my thoughts upon seeing for the first time decades ago a photograph of Shirakawago on a Japanese wall calendar. In a remote ...

US President Donald Trump's administration is making deep cuts at the National Park Service (NPS), and after firing around 1,000 of its employees last month the White House is now moving to close ...

A UN agency will investigate whether the status of one of the nation’s oldest World Heritage reserves has been undermined by the reburial of ancient Mungo ­remains in outback NSW. UNESCO said ...

“Six sites, including Mudumal Megalithic Menhirs in Telangana and palace-fortresses of the Bundelas in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, have been added to India’s tentative list by the UNESCO ...