UNESCO has added xix locations to its listing of World Heritage Sites, a novel cadre of sites spanning everything from temples inwards Korea to architecture inwards Bharat to an oasis inwards Saudi Arabia. The World Heritage Committee announced them over the yesteryear calendar week later on a coming together inwards Bahrain.
Cultural properties  |
| Aerial sentiment of Göbekli Tepe inwards 2013 [Credit: DAI/Göbekli Tepe Project] |
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| Building D, Göbekli Tepe [Credit: DAI/Göbekli Tepe Project] |
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| Building D, Göbekli Tepe [Credit: K. Piesker/DAI] |
1. Göbekli Tepe, Turkey Located inwards the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this site presents monumental circular together with rectangular megalithic structures, interpreted equally enclosures, which were erected yesteryear hunter-gatherers inwards the Pre-Pottery Neolithic historic menses betwixt 9,600 together with 8,200 BC. It is probable that these monuments were used inwards connecter alongside rituals, in all probability of a funerary nature. Distinctive T-shaped pillars are carved alongside images of wild animals, providing insight into the agency of life together with beliefs of people living inwards Upper Mesopotamia nearly 11,500 years ago.
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| Qal'eh Dokhtar [Credit: S.H.Rashedi/ICHHTO] |
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| Ardashir Palace [Credit: B. Sedighi/ICHHTO] |
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| Sarvestan [Credit: B. Sedighi/ICHHTO] |
2. Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region, Iran Eight archaeological sites situated inwards iii geographical parts inwards the southeast of Fars Province: Firuzabad, Bishapur together with Sarvestan. These fortified structures, palaces, together with urban core plans appointment dorsum to the earliest together with latest times of the Sassanian Empire, which stretched across the portion from 224 to 658 CE. Among these sites is the uppercase built yesteryear the founder of the dynasty, Ardashir Papakan, equally good equally a urban core together with architectural structures of his successor, Shapur I. The archaeological landscape reflects the optimized utilization of natural topography together with bears witness to the influence of Achaemenid together with Parthian cultural traditions together with of Roman art, which had a pregnant affect on the architecture together with artistic styles of the Islamic era.
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Entrance at Kochieng enclosure together with buttresses at either side for stability
[Credit: Ephraim Mwangi/National Museums of Kenya] |
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| Large cattle enclosure [Credit: Ephraim Mwangi/National Museums of Kenya] |
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Corridors used to guide animals together with cattle enclosures [Credit: Ephraim Mwangi/
National Museums of Kenya] |
3. Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site, Kenya Situated north-west of the town of Migori, inwards the Lake Victoria region, this dry-stone walled settlement was in all probability built inwards the 16th century CE. The Ohinga (i.e. settlement) seems to convey served equally a fort for communities together with livestock, but too defined social entities together with relationships linked to lineage. Thimlich Ohinga is the largest together with best preserved of these traditional enclosures. It is an particular representative of the tradition of massive dry-stone walled enclosures, typical of the get-go pastoral communities inwards the Lake Victoria Basin, which persisted until the mid-20th century.
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Aerial sentiment of the Caliphate City of Medina Azahara [Credit: M. Pijuán/
Madinat al-Zahra Archaeological Site (CAMaZ)] |
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| Upper Gardens [Credit: M. Pijuán/Madinat al-Zahra Archaeological Site (CAMaZ)] |
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| House of Ya'far. Entrance [Credit: M. Pijuán/Madinat al-Zahra Archaeological Site (CAMaZ)] |
4. Caliphate City of Medina Azahara, Spain The Caliphate urban core of Medina Azahara is an archaeological site of a urban core built inwards the mid-10th century CE yesteryear the Umayyad dynasty equally the topographic point of the Caliphate of Cordoba. After prospering for several years, it was set to waste matter during the civil state of war that position an cease to the Caliphate inwards 1009-10. The remains of the urban core were forgotten for almost 1,000 years until their rediscovery inwards the early on 20th century. This consummate urban ensemble features infrastructure such equally roads, bridges, H2O systems, buildings, decorative elements together with everyday objects. It provides in-depth noesis of the instantly vanished Western Islamic civilization of Al-Andalus, at the meridian of its splendour.
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Aerial sentiment of the western corner of medieval Qalhat, alongside Bibi Maryam Mausoleum,
the intramuros cistern together with the primary gate of the town [Credit: QDP/MHC] |
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| Bibi Maryam Mausoleum [Credit: QDP/MHC] |
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| Aerial sentiment of the Great Fri Mosque later on excavations [Credit: QDP/MHC] |
5. Ancient City of Qalhat, Oman The site, which is located on the eastward coast of the Sultanate of Oman, includes the ancient urban core of Qalhat, surrounded yesteryear inner together with outer walls, equally good equally areas beyond the ramparts where necropolises are located. The urban core developed equally a major port on the eastward coast of Arabia betwixt the 11th together with 15th centuries CE, during the reign of the Hormuz princes. Today it bears unique archaeological testimony to the merchandise links betwixt the eastward coast of Arabia, East Africa, India, PRC together with South-east Asia.
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| Al-Qarah aerial sentiment [Credit: IPOGEA] |
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| At-Tehamiyah hamlet remains [Credit: IPOGEA] |
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| Traditional good inwards Qasr Sahood [Credit: François Cristofoli] |
6. Al-Ahsa Oasis, an Evolving Cultural Landscape, Saudi Arabia In the eastern Arabian Peninsula, the Al-Ahsa Oasis is a series belongings comprising gardens, canals, springs, wells, a drainage lake, equally good equally historical buildings, urban cloth together with archaeological sites. They stand upwardly for traces of continued human settlement inwards the Gulf portion from the Neolithic to the present, equally tin move live seen from remaining historic fortresses, mosques, wells, canals together with other H2O direction systems. With its 2.5 meg appointment palms, it is the largest oasis inwards the world. Al-Ahsa is too a unique geocultural landscape together with an particular representative of human interaction alongside the environment.
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The Crooked Wall of the Danevirke [Credit: Rainer Heidenreich/
Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein] |
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Brick Front of the Main Wall of the Danevirke [Credit: Michael Lang/
Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein] |
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From a smithy: casting mould of lather stone, Fe pan, melting pot, Fe pliers, Viking Age
[Credit: Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf] |
7. Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby together with the Danevirke, Germany The archaeological site of Hedeby consists of the remains of an emporium – or trading town - containing traces of roads, buildings, cemeteries together with a harbour dating dorsum to the 1st together with early on s millennia CE. It is enclosed yesteryear component subdivision of the Danevirke, a trouble of fortification crossing the Schleswig isthmus, which separates the Jutland Peninsula from the residuum of the European mainland. Because of its unique province of affairs betwixt the Frankish Empire of the South together with the Danish Kingdom inwards the North, Hedeby became a trading hub betwixt continental Europe together with Scandinavia together with betwixt the North Sea together with the Baltic Sea. Because of its rich together with good preserved archaeological material, it has go a key site for the interpretation of economic, social together with historical developments inwards Europe during the Viking age.
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| Beopjusa Temple, Hall of Eight Pictures [Credit: CIBM] |
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| Beopjusa Temple, Hall of Eight Pictures [Credit: CIBM] |
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| Tongdosa Temple - Diamond Precept Platform [Credit: CIBM] |
8. Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries inwards Korea, Republic of Korea The Sansa are Buddhist mount monasteries located throughout the southern provinces of the Korean Peninsula. The spatial organisation of the vii temples that comprise the site, established from the seventh to ninth centuries, acquaint mutual characteristics that are specific to Korea – the “madang” (open courtyard) flanked yesteryear 4 buildings (Buddha Hall, pavilion, lecture hall together with dormitory). They incorporate a large position out of individually remarkable structures, objects, documents together with shrines. These mount monasteries are sacred places, which convey survived equally living centres of organized religious belief together with daily religious exercise to the present.
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Naumburg, cathedral alongside West choir [Credit: Guido Siebert/
Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut] |
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Naumburg cathedral, founder figures [Credit: Guido Siebert/
Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut] |
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Naumburg cathedral, founder figure [Credit: Guido Siebert/
Förderverein Welterbe an Saale und Unstrut] |
9. Naumburg Cathedral, Germany Located inwards the eastern component subdivision of the Thuringian Basin, the Cathedral of Naumburg, whose construction began inwards 1028, is an outstanding testimony to medieval fine art together with architecture. Its Romanesque structure, flanked yesteryear 2 Gothic choirs, demonstrates the stylistic transition from belatedly Romanesque to early on Gothic. The westward choir, dating to the get-go one-half of the 13th century reflects changes inwards religious exercise together with the appearance of scientific discipline together with nature inwards the figurative arts. The choir together with life-size sculptures of the founders of the Cathedral are masterpieces of the workshop known equally the “Naumburg Master”.
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| Hisaka Island [Credit: Kyushu Air Lines/Nagasaki Préfecture] |
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| Shitsu Church alongside its 2 steeples [Credit: TBS VISION, Inc/Nagasaki Préfecture] |
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| Oura Cathedral [Credit: Nippon Cultural Heirtage Consultancy Co., Ltd/Nagasaki Préfecture] |
10. Hidden Christian Sites inwards the Nagasaki Region, Japan Located inwards the north-western component subdivision of Kyushu island, the 12 components of the site consist of x villages, Hara Castle together with a cathedral, built betwixt the 16th together with 19th centuries. Together they reverberate the earliest activities of Christian missionaries together with settlers inwards Nippon – the stage of encounter, followed yesteryear times of prohibition together with persecution of the Christian organized religious belief together with the finally stage of the revitalization of Christian communities later on the lifting of prohibition inwards 1873. These sites behave unique testimony to a cultural tradition nurtured yesteryear hidden Christians inwards the Nagasaki portion who secretly transmitted their organized religious belief during the menses of prohibition from the 17th to the 19th century.
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Tent army camp close the H2O ice canvass inwards the easternmost component subdivision of the nominated area. Easy access to the inland H2O ice makes
Kangerlussuaq a pop starting betoken for excursions to the H2O ice canvass [Credit: Ólafur Rafnar Ólafsson] |
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View looking westward over the lake of Aasivissuit inwards the eastern interior of the nominated expanse
[Credit: Laust Løgstrup] |
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The exclusively solid standing inwards Saqqaq was built yesteryear a private private later on the settlement was abandoned.
It is used equally a summerhouse together with hunting cabin [Credit: Jens Fog Jensen] |
11. Aasivissuit – Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground betwixt Ice together with Sea, Denmark Located within the Arctic Circle inwards the key component subdivision of West Greenland, the site contains the remains of 4,200 years of human history. It is a cultural landscape which bears witness to its creators’ hunting of solid reason together with bounding main animals, seasonal migrations together with a rich together with well-preserved tangible together with intangible cultural heritage linked to climate, navigation together with medicine. The features of the site include large wintertime houses together with prove of caribou hunting, equally good equally archaeological sites from Paleo-Inuit together with Inuit cultures. The cultural landscape includes vii key localities, from Nipisat inwards the westward to Aasivissuit, close the ice-cap inwards the east. It bears testimony to the resilience of the human cultures of the portion together with their traditions of seasonal migration.
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| Ivrea, close Turin, Italia [Credit: Alessandro di Marco/EPA] |
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Corso Jervis, inwards the foreground, the Officine ICO together with the Social Services Centre
[Credit: Maurizio Gjivovich/Guelpa Foundation] |
12. Ivrea, industrial urban core of the 20th century, Italy The industrial urban core of Ivrea is located inwards the Piedmont portion together with developed equally the testing Earth for Olivetti, manufacturer of typewriters, mechanical calculators together with component subdivision computers. It comprises a large mill together with buildings designed to serve the management together with social services, equally good equally residential units. Designed yesteryear leading Italian urban planners together with architects, to a greater extent than frequently than non betwixt 1930 together with the 1960s, this architectural ensemble reflects the ideas of the Community Movement (Movimento Comunità). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 model social project, Ivrea expresses a modern vision of the human relationship betwixt industrial production together with architecture.
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A row of Art Deco storey buildings along the banking concern of the Arabian Sea
[Credit: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters] |
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Aerial sentiment of the Kala Ghoda Streetscape [Credit: Jehangir Sorabjee/
Abha Narain Lambah Associates] |
13. Victorian Gothic together with Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai, India Having go a global trading centre, the urban core of Bombay implemented an ambitious urban planning projection inwards the minute one-half of the 19th century. It led to the construction of ensembles of world buildings bordering the Oval Maidan opened upwardly space, get-go inwards the Victorian Neo-Gothic vogue together with then, inwards the early on 20th century, inwards the Art Deco idiom. The Victorian ensemble includes Indian elements suited to the climate, including balconies together with verandas. The Art Deco edifices, alongside their cinemas together with residential buildings, blend Indian pattern alongside Art Deco imagery, creating a unique vogue that has been described equally Indo-Deco. These 2 ensembles behave testimony to the phases of modernization that Bombay has undergone inwards the course of written report of the 19th together with 20th centuries.
Natural properties  |
| Lomati Valley [Credit: Tony Ferrar] |
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| Sandspruit River, southern expanse [Credit: Dion Brandt] |
1. Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains, South Africa Situated inwards north-eastern South Africa, the site comprises 40% of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, 1 of the world’s oldest geological structures. The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains represents the best-preserved succession of volcanic together with sedimentary stone dating dorsum 3.6 to 3.25 billion years, when the get-go continents were starting to shape on the primitive Earth. It features meteor-impact fallback breccias resulting from the affect of meteorites formed but later on the Great Bombardment (4.6 to 3.8 billion years ago).
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| Chaine des Puys - Limagne error tectonic arena [Credit: Denis Pourcher] |
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| Chaine des Puys [Credit: Denis Pourcher] |
2. Chaîne des Puys - Limagne error tectonic arena, France Situated inwards the centre of France, the site comprises the long Limagne fault, the alignments of the Chaîne des Puys volcanoes together with the inverted relief of the Montagne de la Serre. It is an emblematic segment of the West European Rift, created inwards the aftermath of the formation of the Alps, 35 meg years ago. The geological features of the belongings demonstrate how the continental crust cracks, together with then collapses, allowing deep magma to ascent together with crusade uplifting at the surface. The belongings is an particular illustration of continental break-up – or rifting – which is 1 of the 5 major stages of plate tectonics.
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| The miracle of Fanjingshan [Credit: Li Guiyun] |
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| Buddha's low-cal [Credit: Zhou Wenqing] |
3. Fanjingshan, China Located within the Wuling mount make inwards Guizhou Province (south-west China), Fanjingshan ranges inwards height betwixt 500 metres together with 2,570 metres inwards a higher house bounding main level, favouring highly various types of vegetation together with relief. It is an isle of metamorphic stone inwards a bounding main of karst, domicile to many works life together with creature species which originated inwards the Tertiary period, betwixt 65 meg together with 2 meg years ago. The site’s isolation has led to a high storey of biodiversity alongside endemic species, such equally the Fanjingshan Fir (Abies fanjingshanensis) together with the Guizhou Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi), together with endangered species, such equally the Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus), the Forest Musk Deer (Moschus berezovskii) together with Reeve’s Pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii). Fanjingshan has the largest together with most contiguous primeval beech wood inwards the subtropical region.
Mixed properties  |
| Chiribiquete National Park [Credit: Steve Winter] |
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| Rock Art [Credit: Jorge Mario Álvarez Arango] |
1. Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”, Colombia Located inwards the north-west Colombian Amazon, Chiribiquete National Park is the largest protected expanse inwards the country. One of the defining features of the common is the presence of tepuis (the Native American discussion for table-top mountains), sheer-sided sandstone plateaux that dominate the forest. Over 75,000 paintings, spanning to a greater extent than than 20,000 years to the present, are to live seen on the walls of the lx stone shelters to a greater extent than or less the bases of the tepuis. Believed to live linked to the worship of the jaguar, a symbol of mightiness together with fertility, these paintings depict hunting scenes, battles, dances together with ceremonies. The indigenous communities, which are non straight acquaint on the site, consider the portion sacred.
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| Pimachiowin Aki - Canada [Credit: Pimachiowin Aki] |
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| Meat smoking rack – Pikangikum expanse [Credit: Pimachiowin Aki] |
2. Pimachiowin Aki, Canada Pimachiowin Aki (“The Land That Gives Life”) is a wood landscape crossed yesteryear rivers together with studded alongside lakes, wetlands, together with boreal forest. It forms component subdivision of the ancestral domicile of the Anishinaabeg, an indigenous people living from fishing, hunting together with gathering. The expanse encompasses the traditional lands of 4 Anishinaabeg communities (Bloodvein River, Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi together with Poplar River). It is an particular representative of the cultural tradition of Ji-ganawendamang Gidakiiminaan (“keeping the land”) which consists of honouring the gifts of the Creator, respecting all forms of life together with maintaining harmonious relations alongside others. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 complex network of livelihood sites, habitation sites, go routes together with ceremonial sites, frequently linked yesteryear waterways, embodies this tradition.
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| Cacti [Credit: Diana Hernandez/CHAC] |
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| Tomb Quitepec fortress [Credit: Diana Hernandez/CHAC] |
3. Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica, Mexico Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, component subdivision of the Mesoamerican region, is the arid or semi-arid zone alongside the richest biodiversity inwards all of North America. Consisting of iii components, Zapotitlán-Cuicatlán, San Juan Raya together with Purrón, it is 1 of the primary centres of diversification for the cacti family, which is critically endangered worldwide. The valley harbours the densest forests of columnar cacti inwards the world, shaping a unique landscape that too includes agaves, yuccas together with oaks. Archaeological remains demonstrate technological developments together with the early on domestication of crops. The valley presents an particular H2O direction scheme of canals, wells, aqueducts together with dams, the oldest inwards the continent, which has allowed for the emergence of agricultural settlements.
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre [July 06, 2018] Sumber http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
