The Casa de África Museum in Old Havana hosted the presentation of the educational game ‘African Diaspora’, an innovative ...

When the United States rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in July of this year, there was some cautious optimism that perhaps the US presence would ...

To earn this first-of-its-kind accolade, the Italian government campaigned UNESCO for five years—spearheaded by Italian food ...

Italy is raising a glass and saying "salute" after becoming the first country in history to have an entire cuisine added to ...

TOKYO — The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its ...

In the quiet depths of UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, rows of film reels, tapes, and photographs tell stories of people, ideas, and moments that have shaped the world. The UNESCO Archives preserve and ...

Japan has yet to fulfill its promises made during the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listing of the Sado Mine in Niigata ...

The Urakami Cathedral, left, and the Oura Cathedral are two of the hidden Christian sites of Nagasaki recognised by UNESCO UNESCO has designated a series of sites associated with the hidden history of ...

In its haste to build a national identity and squeeze more tourism income out of its ancient past, Uzbekistan may have killed the goose that lays the golden eggs in the ancient southeastern city of ...

The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization works to preserve significant and inspirational places worldwide. Designated World Heritage sites, they are as diverse as Yellowstone ...

Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow is a Senegalese academic and politician. After graduate studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, he returned to Senegal to teach geography and history. He was Minister of Education and ...

Koïchiro Matsuura is a Japanese diplomat. A graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and the Faculty of Economics at Haverford College (United States), he has held various positions ...