UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) would administer the program, and nations could apply to have a site inscribed on a World Heritage List, if the site was ...

In 2021, Liverpool made global headlines when the United Nations Educational ... significant sites, such as the Tower of London, have retained their World Heritage status even as high-rise ...

Topeka's Monroe Elementary School is under consideration to become an internationally recognized cultural landmark by the ...

These are just a few of the global destinations given World Heritage status by the United Nations Educational ... which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986. The Roman Empire’s largest ...

The organization said that more than 90 important sites on the moon could risk destruction if space tourism is left ...

Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch ...

World Arabic Language Day is celebrated every year on 18 December since 2012. The date coincides with the day in 1973 that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted Arabic as the sixth ...

It forms part of the Derwent Valley Mills - a world heritage site situated along a 15-mile ... 2001 but that could now be at risk after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

To make the list, the World Heritage Committee — which includes representatives from 21 nations — must find that a site possesses natural and cultural assets of global significance.

Locations deemed World Heritage sites are of "outstanding universal ... There's also an incentive for developing nations to get destinations added to the World Heritage list to boost tourism.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Friday declared Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park a World Natural Heritage Site, making it the South ...