Incredible natural beauty, amazing archaeological treasures, historic cityscape -- what makes a destination worthy of UNESCO World Heritage status? A stunning selection of must-see spots are among the ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the Gaelic Athletic Association's Director of Communications, Alan Milton, about hurling and Camogie having been named cultural treasures this week by UNESCO. Each year, ...

Audrey Azoulay, the Director-General of UNESCO, will undertake an official visit to Uzbekistan to take part in the International Conference on the Preservation of Tangible and Intangible Cultural ...

Francesco Bandarin is an Italian architect and urban planner. He holds a degree in Architecture from the Venice Institute of Architecture and a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the ...

The U.S. stopped paying dues to the U.N. Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization after it recognized a Palestinian state in 2011. The U.S. will be out of the group by the end of the year. At ...

MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) this year has inscribed 19 sites on the World Heritage List, which now totals 1,092, Lyudmila ...

Chinese scientist Mee-Mann Chang made the list of five laureates of the 2018 L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards, an initiative to promote greater gender equality in science, the UN agency said on ...

Priene, located in Aydin in western Türkiye and on UNESCO’s World Heritage Tentative List since 2018, on Tuesday began ...