The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization works to preserve significant and inspirational places worldwide. Designated World Heritage sites, they are as diverse as Yellowstone Nationa ...

More than 100 Lebanese lawmakers appealed to the United Nations on Thursday to ensure the preservation of heritage sites in ...

Lebanon's heritage sites have faced increasing threat-and in some case outright damage-from Israeli air strikes.

Israeli strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon have damaged and threatened several important monuments, while Baalbek ...

The building, within the Dinorwig Quarry UNESCO World Heritage site in Wales, was set ablaze in what police have described as ...

Lake Ohrid, a UNESCO World Heritage site that straddles North Macedonia and Albania, is at risk from pollution, overfishing, ...

The Memory of Mankind — China's World Heritage Photography Exhibition was recently held at the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing ...

It is part of the series "Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan," which depicts various parts of the country through the perspective of the author, a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University.

Israel's aggressive actions toward Lebanon pose a significant threat to Baalbek, a 3,000-year-old city listed as a UNESCO ...

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Archaeologists in Cambodia have unearthed a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues in a “remarkable discovery” at the Angkor ...