Topic: Unesco
Opponents of a Canadian gold mine project at an ancient Roman site in Transylvania threatened to sue authorities on Monday after Romania's culture ministry issued a permit for the mine."We will go to court to contest the archaeological discharge certificate" delivered by ...
Bucharest issued an archaeological discharge certificate for an area in northwestern Romania where a Canadian firm wants to establish a gold mine, the culture ministry said Friday.The decision was criticized by groups defending the patrimony of the region's ancient Roman site."The department ...
Israeli archaeologists have finished work on a tunnel which starts at a site near the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound inside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, officials said on Tuesday.The controversial 600-metre (-yard) tunnel, originally built as a drainage channel during the ...
The Romanian Academy on Wednesday urged the ministry of culture to include a former Roman site in its tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage to protect it from a Canadian gold mine project.Two other organisations involved in the conservation of cultural heritage, ...
Mummies decaying in Siberia, pyramids vanishing under the sand in Sudan, Maya temples collapsing: climate change risks destroying countless treasures from our shared past, archaeologists warn.Melting ice can unlock ancient secrets from the ground, as with the discovery in 1991 of "Oetzi", ...
The complex ethnic and cultural mixture of Peru presents an entwining of aboriginal pantheism, Spanish mysticism, and African religious practices, manifested in the country's music, literature, textiles, handicrafts, gold and silver work, and bounteous cuisine.. The life of the upper-middle class and ...
Much of the country's cultural development is overseen by the National Institute of Culture, which seeks to make cultural activities available to all. The historic centre of Lima (designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988) contains a significant number of buildings ...
Serpent Mound is an ancient earthwork located above Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. In 1887, Putnam raised the necessary funds to convert Serpent Mound and its surrounding area into a park. Past archaeology and ethnology experts thought Serpent Mound was ...
Huacachina is a village insouthwestern Peru,near the city of Ica.One has to remember that the Peruvian coast is mainly a dessert, so it is notTake a look at the back of the 50?Nuevo Sol?note and you will find a picture of that ...
Opponents of a Canadian gold mine project in a Romanian village on Saturday called on the Romanian culture ministry to save a threatened ancient site in the area."The universal value of the Rosia Montana site and especially of the Roman mining tunnels ...
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