A World Heritage Site is a site determined by the United Nations Educational, Scene
As such the sites are protected and maintained by the International World Heritage Pro
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to have significant cultural or natural importance to ne
which is administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Because World
Sites are places that are significant culturally and naturally, they vary in type but include
lakes, monuments, buildings and cities
World Heritage Sites can also be a combination of both cultural and natural area
example, Mount Huangshan in China is a site with significance to human culture beca
played a role in historical Chinese art and literature. The mountain is also significant beca
its physical landscape characteristics
HISTORY OF WORLD HERITAGE SITES
Although the idea of protecting cultural and natural heritage sites around the world
in the early twentieth century momentum for its actual creation was not until the 1950s. Ir
Egypt started plans to build the Aswan High Dam to collect and control water from the Nile
The initial plan for the dam's construction would have flooded the valley containing the
Simbel Temples and scores of ancient Egyptian artefacts. To protect the temples and art
UNESCO launched an international campaign in 1959 that called for the dismantlin
movement of the temples to higher ground. The project cost an estimated US $80 millio
million of which came from 50 different countries. Because of the project's success, UN
and the International Council on Monuments and Sites initiated a draft convention to cre
international organization responsible for protecting cultural heritage.
Shortly thereafter in 1965, a White House Conference in the United States calle
"World Heritage Trust" to protect historic and cultural niton which lesson learned
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UNESCO. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to protect and preserve such sites through the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This international treaty was drawn up in 1972.
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UNESCO. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to protect and preserve such sites through the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This international treaty was drawn up in 1972.
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