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Wadi Rum Protected Area
The 74,000-hectare property, inscribed as a mixed natural and cultural site, is situated in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia. It features a varied desert landscape consisting of a ...
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Les technologies numériques au service du patrimoine mondial en Afrique
Organisé dans le cadre du développement de la Plateforme de cartes en ligne du patrimoine mondial, avec le généreux soutien du gouvernement flamand (Belgique), cet atelier vise à renforcer les capacit ...
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Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
The 56,259 ha biosphere lies within rugged forested mountains about 100 km northwest of Mexico City. Every autumn, millions, perhaps a billion, butterflies from wide areas of North America return to ...
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A selection of artefacts found during the excavations at Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu
UNESCO Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Durham University ...
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World Heritage
Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. What ...
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Simien National Park
Massive erosion over the years on the Ethiopian plateau has created one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, with jagged mountain peaks, deep valleys and sharp precipices dropping some ...
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World Heritage in Danger
The List of World Heritage in Danger is designed to inform the international community of conditions which threaten the very characteristics for which a property was inscribed on the World Heritage ...
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UNESCO brings together World Heritage marine site managers to review groundbreaking environmental DNA Expeditions and citizen science efforts
On 30 April 2025, managers from the 51 UNESCO World Heritage marine sites convened online with experts from UNESCO to review ...
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Palmeral of Elche
The Palmeral of Elche, a landscape of groves of date palms, was formally laid out, with elaborate irrigation systems, at the time the Muslim city of Elche was erected, towards the end of the tenth ...
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L'UNESCO réunit les gestionnaires des sites du patrimoine mondial marin pour examiner les expéditions novatrices d'ADN environnemental et les efforts des citoye…
Le 30 avril 2025, les gestionnaires des 51 sites du patrimoine mondial marin de l'UNESCO se sont réunis en ligne avec des ...
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L'UNESCO renforce la capacité du gouvernement du Sindh à préserver les monuments historiques de Makli, Thatta au Pakistan
Afin de renforcer la capacité des professionnels de la Direction des antiquités et de l'archéologie du Sindh à sauvegarder ...
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Ajanta Caves
The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...