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Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list

UNESCO recognizes Japan's Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site, highlighting its wartime exploitation of Korean laborers. Japan and South Korea take ...

IT has been announced that The Flow Country in Caithness and Sutherland has become the latest Scottish site to be granted Unesco World Heritage…

SCOTLAND'S newest Unesco World Heritage Site was granted the status on Friday – but where is it?

THE Flow Country has become the UK’s newest Unesco World Heritage Site having been granted the accolade on Friday.

UNESCO said the site, which dates back to the fourth century, had been put on the endangered list at the demand of Palestinian authorities and cited the "imminent threats" it faced.

The Charaideo Moidam royal burial complex and shrines, built by northeast India’s Ahom dynasty, has been inscribed as a new World Heritage Site, the United Nations’ cultural agency

A decision not to include the Great Barrier Reef on a global list of in-danger sites is a case of "political convenience trumping science", an expert says.

The United Nations’ cultural agency has decided against putting the Buddhist pilgrimage destination of Lumbini on its list of heritage sites in danger, instead giving authorities in Nepal more time to help restore the famous gardens and temple that are falling into disrepair