World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 878 UNESCO World Heritage SitesUpdated for 2010, this guide fully describes every official UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to safeguard the world's most important sites, which led to the first World Heritage List. In clear text that highlights all the fascinating facts, this revised edition of World Heritage Sites details all 890 properties, including the 13 new sites added in 2009. Covering 148 countries, the World Heritage List has proved to be a valuable tool in the battle to preserve much of the world's cultural and natural heritage. Its strict criteria result in only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the list, including:
The new sites added to this edition are:
Featuring gorgeous photographs and updated maps, World Heritage Sites is uniquely comprehensive. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 with the ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men and women through education, social and natural science, culture and communication. |
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... tombs of the Valley of Kings , the British explorers Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon found in 1922 a small tomb that soon became the most renowned in Egypt , that of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun . The Great Hous Hall of Colum the ...
... Tombs represents the best extant example of a Baganda palace / architectural ensemble . It reflects technical ... tombs were demolished and military buildings erected for the garrison on the site . TOMBS OF BUGANDA KINGS AT KASUB ! THE ...
... tombs . Fourteen tombs are imperial and twenty - six are of nobles . All belong to the Koguryo culture , named after the dynasty that ruled over parts of northern China and the northern half of the Korean Peninsula from 277 BC to AD 668 ...