Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reviews nominations and selects new sites of “outstanding universal value” for its World Heritage List. This week, the organization announced 24 new UNESCO World Heritage Sites by 2024, ranging from historic buildings and archaeological spaces to cultural and herbal wonders.
The UNESCO World Heritage designation is helping several sites of great importance for future generations. In total, the list includes 1,223 households spread across some 170 countries. “What makes the concept of global heritage exceptional is its universal application,” the organization’s website says. “World Heritage sites belong to all other peoples of the world, regardless of the territory in which they are located. “
The Central Axis, one of the last World Heritage Sites, stretches from north to south in the historic center of Beijing.
New UNESCO World Heritage Sites added to the list this year include archaeological sites in the South African provinces of the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal that “provide the most diverse and best-preserved evidence known of the progression of fashionable human behavior, which dates back 162,000 years; “the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil, whose magnificent landscape of dunes and lagoons is of “rare beauty” of significant biodiversity value and the historical architectural complex of the Royal Court of Tiébélé, in Burkina Faso.
UNESCO has also added Tell um Amer, an ancient monastery located in the Gaza Strip, to the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger. Founded by Saint Hilarion, it is one of the oldest sites in the Middle East and Home to the first monastic network in the Holy Land. The dual designation of the site recognizes “the price of the site and the desire to protect it from harm” in the context of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, UNESCO said in a statement. .
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