The UNESCO World Heritage Committee met in Paris this month to add to its list of cultural sites around the world deemed to ...

Bavarian palaces, imperial tombs in China and memorials to Khmer Rouge victims are among the sites being recognized by the ...

Germany’s storybook castles are now UNESCO World Heritage sites. The royal castles of Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee have been added to the prestigious list, which includes ...

All of the new places added to the list this year have “outstanding universal value” and meet at least one out of 10 ...

UNESCO has added 26 new locations to its World Heritage List, bringing the total to 1,248 sites recognized globally for their ...

Four new African sites entered the UNESCO World Heritage List, bringing the total number to 112. This year, two African ...

South Korea will host its first U.N. World Heritage Convention summit in July 2026 after joining the convention in 1988, ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

A total of 26 new sites were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list this year, 21 of which are of cultural importance to ...

Murujuga is Australia’s 21st world heritage property, but only the second property listed exclusively for its Indigenous ...

The actions cover the critically endangered vaquita’s Gulf of California habitat in Mexico, the iconic and wildlife-rich Galápagos Islands, the world’s largest tropical wetland in South America, and a ...

Cairns - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting since November 27 in Cairns, Australia, has inscribed 61 new cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage. The List now has 690 sites of ...