Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes, but the U.N.’s ...

In Icelandic, "Vatnajökull" means "the water glacier." At over 3,000 square miles, this massive ice cap covers more than eight percent of Iceland. "I remember the first time I seen a glacier, it moved ...

Norway's Viking Age landscapes including ship burial mounds could soon earn global recognition if authorities get their way.

After seventeen years of grassroots youth activities and international cooperation, the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) ...

Africa is home to an extraordinary wealth of natural and cultural heritage, encompassing stunning historical sites and places, vibrant traditions, iconic landscapes, and globally significant sites ...

Twenty-six sites have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, designating their cultural and natural importance. Locations this year include a sacred mountain in Malawi; petroglyphs in South Korea ...

MALTAHÖHE, HARDAP REGION – On Monday 17 November 2025, Namibia launched a UNESCO pilot project designed at strengthening ...

The honour makes for Italy's 21st item on UNESCO's intangible list, joining Neapolitan pizza-making, Sicilian puppet theatre ...

The Khao Klang Nok monument in Si Thep, an ancient town 150 miles north of Bangkok, has survived more than a thousand years as kingdoms and empires rose and fell around it. But in just the week since ...

View of the rebuilt walls of Babylon, a kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia, now located in the modern-day city of Hillah. The site of Babylon has been selected to be inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage ...

For 50 years, UNESCO’S venerable list has recognized places of “outstanding universal value” for protection. But it comes with challenges from development to overtourism. Known for its architecturally ...