In our travel roundup this week: secrets of a 1,600-year-old Istanbul megastructure, the British place names you’re probably ...

Brno isn’t as well-known as the Czech Republic’s capital city of Prague, but this hidden gem of a city is definitely wor ...

From the street, it doesn’t look like anything special. Most tourists trying to find this UNESCO World Heritage site are ...

“Bharatamuni makes a groundbreaking statement in Natyashastra, asserting that ‘no meaning can blossom forth without rasa’, a profound contribution to world literature,” the UNESCO citation says. — The ...

A sacred North Korean mountain was recently recognized as a UNESCO Global Geopark, the first time a natural site in the country has been included on the list. Mount Paektu, an active volcano and ...

It is the first Indian text to be inducted in the Unesco World Register in 1997. These are Tamil Medical Manuscripts preserved at the Institute of Asian Studies has collected 564 copies of these ...

Manuscripts of the Bhagavad Gita and Bharata’s Natyashastra are among the 74 new additions to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register this year. Hailing their inclusion as “a proud moment for every ...

The most outstanding examples were offered between 1990 and 2009, when some 10,000 khachkars—sacred Armenian cross-stones—were razed in Julfa, Nakhichevan, in what UNESCO and scholars have called one ...

Also known as the International Day for Monuments and Sites, the day was established by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in 1982 and later approved by UNESCO (United ...

Three submissions from Thailand highlight the country's rich cultural heritage and historical significance in Southeast Asia. UNESCO has expanded its Memory of the World International Register ...

In a significant milestone for India’s rich cultural and philosophical heritage, UNESCO has included the Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra in its Memory of the World Register.

Manuscripts of the Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni's Natyashastra are among 74 new documentary heritage collections that have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register as of April 17 ...