Two key UN agencies and some countries on Sunday joined Interpol to launch a major new initiative to enhance the protection of cultural heritage targeted by terrorists and illicit traffickers against a backdrop of a sharp rise of terrorist attacks and destruction of cultural heritage in armed conflict.
Σοβαρές ζημιές από αεροπορικούς βομβαρδισμούς του συριακού καθεστώτος έχει υποστεί η ακρόπολη της αρχαίας πόλης της Παλμύρας, στην κεντρική Συρία.
Archeological sites in Syria are being looted "on an industrial scale," with proceeds being used to fund Islamic State extremists, the head of UNESCO warned today.
Conservationists are facing a race against time to prevent one of Ethiopia's most sacred religious site from crumbling away.
The ancient churches of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia have been a place of pilgrimage for local Christians since they were constructed 800 years ago.
UN,
24 August 2015 – Extremists “cannot silence history,” the
Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, declared today, firmly condemning
the destruction of Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, in Syria, a
World Heritage site.
Syrian activists and the country's antiquities chief say the so-called Islamic State militant group has blown up an ancient temple in Palmyra, one of the the most historic sites in the Middle East.
ISIS extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the “most brutal,
systematic” destruction of ancient sites since World War II, the head of
the U.N. cultural agency said Friday - a stark warning that came hours
after militants demolished a monastery with ancient foundations in
central Syria.
Η Αμμόχωστος ανήκει ήδη στην ιστορία της Ευρώπης και αυτό από το 1570. Αντιπροσωπεύει το σύμβολο της αντίστασης ενάντια στη βαρβαρότητα.
Ο πρόεδρος της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας, Νίκος Αναστασιάδης και ο Τουρκοκύπριος ηγέτης, Μουσταφά Ακιντζί, φαίνεται να κατέληξαν σε κατ' αρχήν συμφωνία να κηρυχθεί από την UNESCO ως μνημείο παγκόσμιας κληρονομιάς το μεσαιωνικό τμήμα της κατεχόμενης πόλης της Αμμοχώστου.
Cuba is preparing to unveil a new tourist attraction inspired by the country's famed cigar industry.
The ancient city of Ephesus in western Turkey has been inscribed to the World Heritage List of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Germany, said Saturday that it had designated seven cultural sites for addition to its World Heritage List.
Two of the sites are in Iran and one each in China, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and France.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
bestows the designation to recognize global significance and to help in
preservation.
Climate change and large dam projects are putting natural World Heritage sites at risk, says International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the official advisory body on nature to UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting on June 25 in Bonn, Germany.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities director said Tuesday, according to Agence France-Presse.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Leavnt (ISIL) militants have laid landmines and explosives at the site of the ancient ruins in Syria’s Palmyra, a monitor said June 21, adding the purpose of the move was unclear.
Nepal has reopened most of the heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of strong earthquakes that devastated parts of the country recently, hoping to bring back foreign tourists.
The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, capped the amount of visitors to 80,000 per day on Saturday.
UNESCO condemned an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on Old Sanaa Friday, a heritage site in Yemen's capital it described as "one of the world's oldest jewels" of Islamic culture.
Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Convention during their biannual Conference, which will take place at UNESCO in Paris from 10 to 12 June. The anniversary will be an occasion to take stock and plan ways to build on the achievements of the 2005 Convention in its first decade.
Εκατόν είκοσι οκτώ κράτη-μέρη στη Σύμβαση της UNESCO του 1970 για την
παρεμπόδιση και πρόληψη της παράνομης εισαγωγής, εξαγωγής και μεταφοράς
κυριότητας πολιτιστικών αγαθών, υιοθέτησαν στο Παρίσι, ομόφωνα, μετά από
πρωτοβουλία της Ελλάδας, τη Διακήρυξη, με την οποία δεσμεύονται να
καταβάλουν κάθε προσπάθεια ώστε να σταματήσει η παράνομη διακίνηση
αρχαιοτήτων και εν γένει πολιτιστικών αγαθών, η οποία έχει αυξηθεί
κατακόρυφα μετά και τις καταστροφές που συνεχίζονται στη Μέση Ανατολή.
