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

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed 26 new sites from various countries, including India's 'Maratha Military Landscape ...

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

UNESCO World Heritage recognition has been given to seven new areas as World Heritage, following IUCN advice. Africa shone ...

UNESCO has granted World Heritage status to Murujuga rock art in Western Australia that many have said is vulnerable as a ...

Bavaria's fairy-tale royal castles, including Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof, have been added to the UNESCO ...

A new strategy for World Heritage in Ireland aims to increase the number of World Heritage Properties in the country to ...

Two Azerbaijani sites - the "Ancient City of Gabala" and the "Historical, Cultural and Natural Complex of Gamigaya and Goygol ...

The collection of ancient rock art becomes the country's second site to receive World Heritage status due to its First ...

The World Heritage listing raises timely questions, such as whether we might see nominations for sites from Australia’s own ...

A large collection of rock art engravings — depicting animals, plants and human figures — in Western Australia has been ...

The 47th session of the World Heritage Committee opens on Sunday, 6 July 2025, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. Over the following 10 days, the Committee will decide which new sites will be ...