Tag: UNESCO World Heritage

Flood waters rose Monday across northeastern India, where hundreds of thousands of people are stranded on the roofs of their homes or have fled...

By Mussa Hattar PETRA, Jordan—Herds of hard-working donkeys once carried hordes of tourists on the rocky paths of Jordan’s Petra, but visitor numbers crashed amid...

Venice, Italy—Saturday saw the first cruise ship cast off from Venice after almost one and a half years’ suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic,...

Egypt unveiled Sunday ancient treasures found at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, including sarcophagi over 3,000 years old, a discovery that "rewrites...

Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bushfire that already destroyed 40 percent of the UNESCO world heritage listed Fraser Island before a...

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By Fulya Ozerkan with Raziye Akkoc in Ankara Turkey's top court convened Thursday to consider whether Istanbul's emblematic landmark and former church Hagia Sophia can be...

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The rice terraces cluster in Barangay Bangaan, Banaue was inscribed in the Unesco World Heritage List in December 1995 as a Living Cultural Landscape...