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 ...

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

The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on Sunday approved the expansion of the world natural heritage site of Phong Nha - Ke ...

Neuschwanstein Castle and three other royal residences built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. These architectural masterpieces, including ...

India’s Maratha Military Landscapes, featuring 12 historic forts, have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in ...

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

Mount Mulanje in Malawi, Diy-Gid-Biy cultural landscape in Cameroon and Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau take their place ...

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

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

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

A new analysis by UNESCO and World Resources Institute (WRI) reveals that 73% of World Heritage sites are highly exposed to ...