Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988, the Daintree National Park was handed back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a ceremony in the remote town of Bloomfield on Wednesday.
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Streit beigelegt: Kueka-Stein kehrt aus Berlin nach Venezuela zurück
Der sogenannte Kueka-Stein, nach Darstellung aus Venezuela heiliges Relikt der Volksgruppe der Pemón, wird nach Venezuela zurückkehren.
Shuri Castle: Fire engulfs world heritage site in Japan
A fire has ripped through Shuri Castle, a World Heritage Site in Okinawa, Japan, destroying the main building.
Seven more cultural sites added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
During its meeting in Baku this afternoon, the World Heritage Committee, inscribed seven cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The sites added this afternoon are located in Canada, Czechia, Germany, Republic of Korea, Myanmar and Poland. Inscriptions will continue tomorrow, 7 July.
UNESCO Adds Reggae Music to Global Cultural Heritage List
Reggae was often championed as a music of the oppressed, with lyrics addressing sociopolitical issues, imprisonment and inequality.
Dede Gorgud’s heritage included in UNESCO list
The „Dede Gorgud’s heritage: a file on culture, folk legends and music” by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkey was included in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the 13th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, held in Port Louis, Mauritius, according to a joint statement of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
UNESCO Heritage Manwoldae
(10.07.2018) Manwoldae was a royal palace of Goryeo Dynasty. For most of the dynasty, the palace remained in Gaesong.