For George Town and its clan jetties, the Unesco imprimatur seemingly provided a second wind... READ MORE›
The militants were driven out after nearly a year by French forces, and those troops arrested Al Mahdi in neighbouring Niger in 2014... READ MORE›
Environmental groups and European officials said the logging threatens the continent's last unspoiled woodland, which is included on the Unesco list of World Heritage sites... READ MORE›
The new decision builds on that assessment, clarifying the responsibility of countries with custodianship over world-heritage listed coral reefs... READ MORE›
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›
Eritrean officials on Saturday claimed victory after the U.N. cultural agency unanimously decided to put the African nation's capital city of Asmara on t... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
It damaged 389 of Bagan's monuments, and broke Pyathat Gyi's spire as if it were one of her candies... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Two weeks ago, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution aimed at thwarting and prosecuting antiquities vandals and smugglers... READ MORE›
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›
Of natural world heritage sites in Africa, more than six in ten are threatened with development... READ MORE›
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›
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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›
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›
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›
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›
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 strives to become listed as world heritage city, following up its first as a national heritage-listed city... READ MORE›
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›
Hatra lies about 110 km 70 miles south of Mosul, the largest city under Islamic State control... READ MORE›
Syrian troops captured Palmyra from Islamic State fighters on Sunday after three weeks of intense fighting... READ MORE›
Plans to allow logging inside Tasmanian world heritage forests have been abandoned after a United Nations report recommended against it... READ MORE›
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›
Conservation groups are eco-traitors for lobbying the Unesco world heritage committee on reef, says Abbot government backbencher George Christensen... READ MORE›
Venice, Stonehenge among World Heritage sites threatened by climate change... READ MORE›
France's champagne industry named as Unesco World Heritage Site... READ MORE›
The 3bn proposal to build one of the world's biggest wind farms, Navitus Bay, has met stiff opposition from residents and environmentalists... READ MORE›
If Tange's work is registered, he would be the first Japanese architect whose work will be included on the World Heritage list, Maki said... READ MORE›
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Japan used to designate candidate World Heritage sites as historic places under the cultural assets preservation law... READ MORE›
Islamic State captured Palmyra, an oasis town and former trading centre in Syria's central desert, from government forces in May... READ MORE›
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