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

An iconic World Heritage site is on the bank of an increasingly polluted river.  What's happening? The Yamuna is ...

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

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

One of the world’s biggest assemblages of rock art at Murujuga in Western Australia’s Pilbara has been granted World Heritage ...

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

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

The world is currently home to 1,248 World Heritage sites across 170 countries, with 44 of these located in India. World ...

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

The World Heritage Committee is one of the two bodies governing the Convention for the Protection of the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage. It is composed of the representatives of 21 States, ...

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

The selection includes ancient kingdom complexes and prehistoric rock art sites ...