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

Another new update to the World Heritage list was the Peruaçu River Canyon in Minas Gerais, Brazil, a stunning canyon with ...

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

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

But now, that familiar forest has a new title — one that puts it on par with Mount Kinabalu and the ancient caves of Niah. As ...

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

Thirty-two historically and culturally significant sites have just joined the illustrious ranks of UNESCO World Heritage List ...

With this latest recognition, Vietnam now holds nine World Heritage Sites, including two transprovincial ones (Ha Long ...

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

India’s reservations, Nepal’s weak diplomacy blamed as bid to list Buddha’s childhood home fails. Expert say joint nomination ...

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

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