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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... century BC by Phoenician traders from Tyre , in modern Lebanon , and by the sixth century BC had conquered and controlled much of the southern Mediterranean : the North African coast from modern Morocco to the borders of modern Egypt ...
... century BC , the temple was erected on the remains of an earlier , sixth - century temple . Inside was the seat of the Pythia , the priestess who presided over the Oracle and delivered the prophesies inspired by Apollo . Delphi was the ...
... millennium under Carthaginian pressure , is the finest and most complete example of this remarkable form of prehistoric architecture . Some time in the seventh century BC , Su Nuraxi was sacked by the Carthaginians and the defensive ...