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 ...

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

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is considered to have cultural or natural heritage of outstanding value to humanity.

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

Hungary’s oldest library is in a race to save its 100,000 books from being munched on by a scourge of paper-eating beetles.

UNESCO has added three torture and genocide sites of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime into World Heritage List. According ...

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

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

The Faya Palaeolandscape has been added to the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage Site list. It has one of the world's oldest ...

The Xixia Imperial Tombs in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Photo: Courtesy of the National Cultural Heritage ...

From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, almost 75% of the world's heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding, U.N. warns.