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24 New Sites On UNESCO`s World Heritage List
Paris, July 05: UNESCO`s World Heritage Committee added twenty-four new sites to the World Heritage list, bringing the total to 754 cultural, natural and mixed sites.
Paris, July 05: UNESCO's World Heritage Committee added twenty-four new sites to the World Heritage list, bringing the total to 754 cultural, natural and mixed sites.
Twenty-four sites were added to Unesco's World Heritage List on Thursday (July 3) in Paris by the World Heritage Committee, including for the first time sites in Gambia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Sudan.
Among the news sites added to the list are Uvs Nuur Basin in Mongolia (1,060,853 hectares): It took its name from the Uvs Nuur Lake, a large, shallow and very saline lake, important for migrating birds, waterfowl and seabirds. Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region in Sudan: The property includes several archaeological sites, over more than 60 kms in the Nile valley, of the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic (270 BC to 350 AD) cultures, of the second kingdom of Kush. Tombs, with and without pyramids, temples, living complexes and palaces are to be found on the site.
Purnululu National Park, Australia: The park contains the deeply dissected Bungle Bungle Range composed of Devonian-age quartz sandstone eroded over a period of 20 million years. Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaiso in Chile: It presents an interesting example of late 19th century urban and architectural development in Latin America.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in United Kingdom: The historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Ubeda-Baeza : Urban duality, cultural unity in Spain: The urban morphology of the two small cities of Ubeda and Baeza in southern Spain dates back to the Moorish 9th century and to the Reconquista in the 13th century.
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, India: They are in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau. Within massive sandstone outcrops, above comparatively dense forest, are five clusters of natural rock shelters, displaying paintings that appear to date from the Mesolithic period right through to the Historical period.
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, South Africa: It is an open, expansive savannah landscape on the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe. Mapungubwe developed into the largest kingdom in the sub-continent before it was abandoned in the 14th century.
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Among the news sites added to the list are Uvs Nuur Basin in Mongolia (1,060,853 hectares): It took its name from the Uvs Nuur Lake, a large, shallow and very saline lake, important for migrating birds, waterfowl and seabirds. Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region in Sudan: The property includes several archaeological sites, over more than 60 kms in the Nile valley, of the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic (270 BC to 350 AD) cultures, of the second kingdom of Kush. Tombs, with and without pyramids, temples, living complexes and palaces are to be found on the site.
Purnululu National Park, Australia: The park contains the deeply dissected Bungle Bungle Range composed of Devonian-age quartz sandstone eroded over a period of 20 million years. Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaiso in Chile: It presents an interesting example of late 19th century urban and architectural development in Latin America.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in United Kingdom: The historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Ubeda-Baeza : Urban duality, cultural unity in Spain: The urban morphology of the two small cities of Ubeda and Baeza in southern Spain dates back to the Moorish 9th century and to the Reconquista in the 13th century.
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, India: They are in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau. Within massive sandstone outcrops, above comparatively dense forest, are five clusters of natural rock shelters, displaying paintings that appear to date from the Mesolithic period right through to the Historical period.
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, South Africa: It is an open, expansive savannah landscape on the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe. Mapungubwe developed into the largest kingdom in the sub-continent before it was abandoned in the 14th century.
Bureau Report