JAPAN TO NOMINATE ANCIENT TOMBS IN OSAKA FOR WORLD HERITAGE LIST

The government on Friday decided to nominate ancient tumulus clusters in Osaka Prefecture as a UNESCO World Heritage site candidate for 2019... READ MORE›

FRENCH BAGUETTES SHOULD BE UNESCO-LISTED TREASURES

Unesco's Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage is different from its register of places, known as World Heritage Sites... READ MORE›

BEIJING HELPS BELT ROAD NATIONS SAVE RELICS

The temples, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, were damaged in a 2016 earthquake... READ MORE›

BRITAIN'S HADRIAN'S WALL, CHINA'S GREAT WALL TO WORK TOGETHER IN UNIQUE HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP

A unique agreement that will see Britain's Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall of China work together, was announced last Tuesday by Heritage Minister John Glenn... READ MORE›

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ISIS ATTACKS IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Last week, Islamic State militants videotaped themselves destroying statues and artifacts in the Mosul Museum and at the Nergal Gate entryway to ancient Nineveh... READ MORE›

MYANMAR IS RESTORING TEMPLES TO REBUILD ITS HERITAGE

It damaged 389 of Bagan's monuments, and broke Pyathat Gyi's spire as if it were one of her candies... READ MORE›

ISIS BULLDOZING OF ANCIENT NIMRUD SITE IN IRAQ STIRS OUTRAGE

The agency said that screenshots of the Defense Department system had been posted online, apparently to prove that the cyberattack had been successful... READ MORE›

'WHY IS THE WORLD SO QUIET?' YEMEN SUFFERS ITS OWN CRUEL LOSSES, FAR FROM ALEPPO.

KAWKABAN, Yemen -- The majestic fortress nestled atop a mountain here in northwestern Yemen survived the armies of the Islamic warrior Saladin in the 12th century... READ MORE›

'UNESCO-CIDE': DOES WORLD HERITAGE STATUS DO CITIES MORE HARM THAN GOOD?

For George Town and its clan jetties, the Unesco imprimatur seemingly provided a second wind... READ MORE›

COUNTRIES WITH CORAL REEFS MUST DO MORE ON CLIMATE CHANGE - UNESCO

The new decision builds on that assessment, clarifying the responsibility of countries with custodianship over world-heritage listed coral reefs... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION DESTROYS ANCIENT SITE IN YEMEN CAPITAL

Two weeks ago, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution aimed at thwarting and prosecuting antiquities vandals and smugglers... READ MORE›

ISIS ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING CENTURIES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

The mining town's new neighbours who are half a world away... READ MORE›

A reef campaigner with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Felicity Wishart, said the report contained no measurable, deliverable action... READ MORE›

MINING AND OIL THREATENS ONE IN THREE NATURAL WORLD HERITAGE SITES REPORT

Of natural world heritage sites in Africa, more than six in ten are threatened with development... READ MORE›

SACRED MEN-ONLY ISLAND SET TO BE GRANTED UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE STATUS

A UNESCO advisory body has recommended adding to the World Heritage list the island of Okinoshima, an ancient religious site in Fukuoka Prefecture where wo... READ MORE›

JAPAN'S OKINOSHIMA ISLAND GAINS UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE STATUS

Japan's Okinoshima island, an ancient religious site where women are banned, has been declared a World Heritage site by the UN's cultural body Unesco... READ MORE›

TUNNEL TO BE BUILT PAST STONEHENGE

Related Stories A tunnel is to be dug to take a congested main road past Stonehenge, the government has announced... READ MORE›

US WITHDRAWS FROM UNESCO, ACCUSES THE ORGANISATION OF ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS

UNESCO, the cultural and educational agency of the United Nations, expressed regret over the United States' official decision to leave its organisation... READ MORE›

'WANTON DESTRUCTION': ISIS BLOWS UP ANCIENT ARCH

ISIS militants had earlier destroyed temples at the Roman-era UNESCO World Heritage site, which it has controlled since capturing Palmyra in May... READ MORE›

WORLD HERITAGE REEFS AT RISK OF CORAL BLEACHING AFTER HEAT STRESS EXPOSURE, UNESCO SAYS

Almost 75 per cent of world heritage coral reefs have been exposed to heat stress that causes coral bleaching in the past three years, UNESCO says... READ MORE›

TIMBUKTU'S HISTORIC TOMBS RESTORED IN SHOW OF CONFIDENCE FOR WAR-RAVAGED MALI

Local and international project in city of 33 saints reconstructs 14 Sufi mausoleums smashed up by al-Qaida backed extremists... READ MORE›

A reef campaigner with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Felicity Wishart, said the report contained no measurable, deliverable action... READ MORE›

9 WONDERS OF THE WORLD SET TO VANISH FOREVER

However, Unesco warns redevelopment in the area - namely, the multi-billion Liverpool Waters mixed use waterfront quarter - will adversely alter the site. More information... READ MORE›

OH VIENNA: WORLD HERITAGE STATUS THREATENED BY HIGH-RISE

But the World Heritage Committee WHC took issue with the tower's height of 66.3 metres, which had already been reduced from 75 metres following protests... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA ACTING WITH 'RENEWED VIGOUR' ON GREAT BARRIER REEF

The Greens said the report would fail to allay the concerns of the world heritage committee, maintaining the government's approach was business as usual ... READ MORE›

SYRIAN TROOPS RECAPTURE PALMYRA FROM ISIL FOR SECOND TIME

Isil withdrew from most of Palmyra after laying mines across the city, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights... READ MORE›

BROKEN HILL COUNCIL PUSHES FOR AUSTRALIA'S FIRST WORLD HERITAGE CITY LISTING IN OUTBACK NSW

Broken Hill strives to become listed as world heritage city, following up its first as a national heritage-listed city... READ MORE›

'IT IS A BIG DEAL TO HAVE A REACTIVE MONITORING MISSION SENT TO A WORLD HERITAGE SITE,' SAYS ENVIRONMENTALIST

Green represents Canada at UNESCO when it comes to World Heritage Sites and was in Fort Chipewyan while the monitors were on their tour... READ MORE›

AFTER CONCESSION TO SEOUL ON FORCED LABOR MEIJI INDUSTRIAL SITES ADDED TO WORLD HERITAGE LIST

At meeting June 21 of their foreign ministers, Japan and South Korea reached a basic agreement to cooperate on heritage listings of each other's sites... READ MORE›

IRAQ SAYS ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS RAZE ANCIENT HATRA CITY

Hatra lies about 110 km 70 miles south of Mosul, the largest city under Islamic State control... READ MORE›

SYRIAN FORCES RETAKE ROMAN-ERA CITY OF PALMYRA

Syrian troops captured Palmyra from Islamic State fighters on Sunday after three weeks of intense fighting... READ MORE›

PLANS TO LOG TASMANIA'S WORLD HERITAGE FORESTS DROPPED AFTER UN CRITICISM

Plans to allow logging inside Tasmanian world heritage forests have been abandoned after a United Nations report recommended against it... READ MORE›

A JAPANESE ISLAND THAT EXCLUDES WOMEN MAY SOON BE A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Google Maps These traditions, and the 80,000 artifacts they produced, are why the island might be denoted a UNESCO World Heritage site... READ MORE›

GREAT BARRIER REEF: NATIONALS MP SAYS ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE GUILTY OF TREASON

Conservation groups are eco-traitors for lobbying the Unesco world heritage committee on reef, says Abbot government backbencher George Christensen... READ MORE›