World Heritage Day isn't merely a celebration; it's a call to safeguard our cultural legacy for today and tomorrow. Protecting these treasures ensures their enduring inspiration and educational value.
Santiniketan: A few months ago, the landmark site was recommended for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List by the international advisory body ICOMOS.
Locally known as "Jingkieng Jri", there are around 100 known living root bridges found in 72 villages in the East Khasi Hills district and West Jaintia Hills district of the mountainous state.
As the session ended on Saturday, the latest inscriptions, which include 29 cultural sites and 5 natural ones, bring the total number of sites on Unesco's World Heritage to 1,154, reports Xinhua news agency.
April 18th is celebrated as World Heritage Day across the globe.
Washington: In war-torn Syria, five of six World Heritage sites now “exhibit significant damage” and some structures have been “reduced to rubble”, reveals new high-resolution satellite image analysis.The damaged Syria's World Heritage sites are: the
Shizuoka (Japan), July 1: The mountain's registration on the world heritage list is expected to attract more climbers this year.Climbers flocked to Mt. Fuji on Monday as Japan's highest mountain opened for this year's climbing
United Nations, Jul 2: India's 1600-km long Western Ghats mountain chain, which has forests older than the Himalaya mountains, has been added to list of world heritage sites by the United Nations.The Western Ghats mountain
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