World Heritage Site

September 18, 2023

UNESCO designates ancient Jericho ruins as World Heritage Site, sparking Israeli ire

Jerusalem CNN — The United Nations World Heritage Committee voted Sunday to list the Tell es-Sultan archaeological site in Jericho…

September 12, 2019

Alaa al-Habashi was looking for ingredients for a Ramadan feast when he stumbled on an Ottoman-era mansion being used as…

May 3, 2019

Arica, Chile (CNN) — The first humans known to have mummified their dead did so in a rather improbable spot:…

April 18, 2019

At St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by…

January 31, 2019

Ibrahim Masri has been the muezzin calling Muslims to prayer for nearly 15 years in an Israeli city but his…

October 5, 2016

Egypt's Antiquities Ministry has concluded its initial case to request the registration of Pharaoh's Island, in Taba, South Sinai, on…

January 3, 2016

Sorry, Gardens by the Bay -- you might have the world's largest vertical garden, but the 156-year-old Singapore Botanic Gardens…

July 28, 2015

Carved into dun-colored cliffs, hundreds of manmade caves situated next to empty niches that once sheltered giant Buddha statues destroyed…

July 6, 2015

A U.N. agency named the Alamo and the four Spanish colonial Catholic missions in San Antonio as a World Heritage…

July 1, 2015

The heritage committee of the UNESCO cultural agency said on Wednesday that the outlook for Australia's Great Barrier Reef was…