On Friday, UNESCO announced it has inscribed nine new sites on its World Heritage List.
On Friday, UNESCO announced it has inscribed nine new sites on its World Heritage List. Here's a list of those sites:
Number 1 - Stećci – Medieval Tombstones GraveyardsLocation: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, SerbiaUNESCO Description"The cemeteries, which date from the 12th to 16th centuries CE, are laid out in rows, as was the common custom in Europe from the Middle Ages. The stećci are mostly carved from limestone. They feature a wide range of decorative motifs and inscriptions that represent iconographic continuities within medieval Europe as well as locally distinctive traditions."
Number 2 - Archaeological Site of PhilippiLocation: GreeceUNESCO Description"The remains of this walled city lie at the foot of an acropolis in the present-day region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, on the ancient route linking Europe and Asia, the Via Egnatia. Founded in 356 BC by the Macedonian King Philip II, the city developed as a 'small Rome' with the establishment of the Roman Empire in the decades following the Battle of Philippi, in 42 BCE."
Number 3 - Antequera Dolmens SiteLocation: SpainUNESCO Description"Located at the heart of Andalusia in southern Spain, the site comprises three megalithic monuments...Built during the Neolithic and Bronze Age out of large stone blocks, these monuments form chambers with lintelled roofs or false cupolas."
Number 4 - Archaeological Site of AniLocation: TurkeyUNESCO Description"This medieval city combines residential, religious and military structures, characteristic of a medieval urbanism built up over the centuries by Christian and then Muslim dynasties. The city flourished in the 10th and 11th centuries CE when it became the capital of the medieval Armenian kingdom of the Bagratides and profited from control of one branch of the Silk Road."
Number 5 - Gorham's Cave ComplexLocation: United KingdomUNESCO Description"The steep limestone cliffs on the eastern side of the Rock of Gibraltar contain four caves with archaeological and paleontological deposits that provide evidence of Neanderthal occupation over a span of more than 125,000 years."
Number 6 - Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural LandscapeLocation: People’s Republic of ChinaUNESCO Description"Located on the steep cliffs in the border regions of southwest China, these 38 sites of rock art illustrate the life and rituals of the Luoyue people. They date from the period around the 5th century BCE to the 2nd century CE."
Number 7 - Archaeological Site of Nalanda MahaviharaLocation: IndiaUNESCO Description"It comprises the archaeological remains of a monastic and scholastic institution dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. It includes stupas, shrines, viharas (residential and educational buildings) and important art works in stucco, stone and metal."
Number 8 - The Persian QanatLocation: IranUNESCO Description"Throughout the arid regions of Iran, agricultural and permanent settlements are supported by the ancient qanat system of tapping alluvial aquifers at the heads of valleys and conducting the water along underground tunnels by gravity, often over many kilometres. The eleven qanats representing this system include rest areas for workers, water reservoirs and watermills."
Number 9 - Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern MicronesiaLocation: Federated States of MicronesiaUNESCO Description"Nan Madol is a series of 99 artificial islets off the south-east coast of Pohnpei that were constructed with walls of basalt and coral boulders. These islets harbour the remains of stone palaces, temples, tombs and residential domains built between 1200 and 1500 CE."
