February 07, 2012

World Heritage talks commemorate 25th anniversary in Bath
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/World-Heritage-talks-commemorate-25th-anniversary/story-15147266-detail/story.html
As part of celebrations commemorating 25 years of Bath achieving World Heritage Status, Bath &North East Somerset Council is staging a series of free talks from other prominent heritage sites. The Tuesday lunchtime talks will be held on 14, ...


PA to submit Israeli sites to World Heritage List
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4185699,00.html
One such effort is focused on submitting nominations of heritage sites ? both on Palestinian and Israeli territory ? for inscription on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The Palestinian Authority was admitted as a full member of UNESCO in October 2011, ...


Bath's last gasometer 'should be saved'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-somerset-16903510
Councillor Bryan Chalker - heritage champion of a city famed for Roman and Georgian architecture - said the 1920s structure was historically important. The Bath Preservation Trust said the gasometer was not one of the reasons Bath was a World Heritage ...


Celebrations for World Heritage Day
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/9515044.Celebrations_for_World_Heritage_Day/
By Jill Harding » A CELEBRATION of World Heritage Day is set to take place at Stonehenge and Avebury in April. People are being invited to join English Heritage experts and discover the prehistoric landscapes and how World Heritage Site status is ...


Aztec Ruins National Monument to Host World Heritage Celebration
http://www.oldwestnewwest.com/20120204604/national-state-parks/other-nps/aztec-ruins-national-monument-to-host-world-heritage-celebration.html
Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico will host a World Heritage 25th Anniversary Celebration on Feb. 24, 2012 with an all-day commemoration. The 25th anniversary celebration will bring renewed attention to the honor of World Heritage designation ...


Not quite over the tossing
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/2/5/nation/10680211&sec=nation
Getting our heritage onto Unesco's lists, however, is a tougher process. ?It must have significant importance to humankind and play a global role. It must have outstanding universal value. A world heritage site is a boost to the national identity and a ...


Stonehenge as you've never seen it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/feb/06/stonehenge-models-google-software?newsfeed=true
The World Heritage site near Salisbury is now more accessible than ever, archaeologists claim, thanks to Google's Under-the-Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge project. Their last few years of findings, combined with the search giant's technology, ...


Indigenous assets on world heritage site: Old Ngwenya Mine, Lion Cavern
http://www.observer.org.sz/index.php?news=35099
The tools, round stones subsequently evolved to sharp pointed picks; reflective of the evolution from cosmic human beings to warriors, the later immigrants of this territory who used the indigenous assets on this world heritage site.