After seventeen years of grassroots youth activities and international cooperation, the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) ...

Each year, UNESCO recognizes culturally significant practices, traditions and customs. 2025's list includes weaving, handmade paper craftsmanship, yurt making, a genre of Cuban music and yodeling.

Norway's Viking Age landscapes including ship burial mounds could soon earn global recognition if authorities get their way.

In recent years, it has become an established practice that a forum is organised in conjunction with each World Heritage Committee session. Since the 41st session of the Committee (Krakow, 2017), site ...

Wooden Church in Tarnavita, Romania (2012), one of the sites on the 2014 World Monuments Watch (photograph by Dan Cioclu/World Monuments Fund) Yesterday, the World Monuments Fund announced their 2014 ...

The selection of heritage sites in the South and South West granted protected status this year has been celebrated for its ...

MALTAHÖHE, HARDAP REGION – On Monday 17 November 2025, Namibia launched a UNESCO pilot project designed at strengthening ...

A charity has called for an update on efforts to safeguard St George’s World Heritage Site status in the wake of the 25th ...

Utah archaeologists say that cultural sites across the state constantly face vandalism incidents, but some volunteers are ...

Palestinians are clearing rubble from archaeological sites, but restoration is hampered by Israeli restrictions on building ...