Vjetrenica [ʋjɛtrɛnitsa] Cave, Ravno [raʋno] - Bosnia and Herzegovina (speaks Bosnian)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1673Located in the Dinaric mountain range, the property stands out with its remarkable cave biodiversity and endemicity. Known since antiquity, the well-conserved representation of karst topography is one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots for cave-dwelling fauna, notably subterranean aquatic fauna. It is home to a number of globally threatened vertebrate species, and the only subterranean tubeworm in the world, as well as a diversity of plant species endemic to the Balkans. Additio WHS Oct 30, 2024, 7:22 AM cowpoke
Via Appia. Regina Viarum [ˈviːa ˈappja. reˈd͡ʒiːna viˈaːrum] - Italy
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1708More than 800 kilometres long, the Via Appia is the oldest and most important of the great roads built by the Ancient Romans. Constructed and developed from 312 BCE to the 4th century CE, it was originally conceived as a strategic road for military conquest, advancing towards the East and Asia Minor. The Via Appia later enabled the cities it connected to grow and new settlements emerged, facilitating agricultural production and trade. This property, composed of 19 component parts, is a fully dev WHS Oct 30, 2024, 7:21 AM cowpoke
Umm Al-Jimāl [ʔum al d͡ʒiˈmaːl] - Jordan
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1721The property is a rural settlement in northern Jordan that developed organically on the site of an earlier Roman settlement around the 5th century CE and functioned until the end of the 8th century CE. It preserves basaltic structures from the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods that represent the local architecture style of the Hauran region, with some earlier Roman military buildings re-purposed by later inhabitants. The settlement formed part of a broader agricultural landscape that included WHS Oct 30, 2024, 7:20 AM cowpoke
The Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi [ˈɡɛdi] - Kenya (speaks Swahili)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1720Surrounded by a remnant coastal forest, away from the coastline, the abandoned city of Gedi was one of the most important Swahili cities on the East African coast from the 10th to 17th centuries. During this period, it was part of a complex and international network of trade and cultural exchanges that crossed the Indian Ocean, linking African coastal centres with Persia and other areas. The opulent settlement is clearly delineated by walls and features remains of domestic, religious, and civic WHS Oct 30, 2024, 7:19 AM cowpoke
The Flow Country - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1722The serial property, located in the Highland Region of Scotland, is considered the most outstanding example of an actively accumulating blanket bog landscape. This peatland ecosystem, which has been accumulating for the past 9,000 years, provides a diversity of habitats home to a distinct combination of bird species and displays a remarkable diversity of features not found anywhere else on Earth. Peatlands play an important role in storing carbon and the property’s ongoing peat-forming ecologica WHS Oct 29, 2024, 6:58 AM cowpoke
The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene [ˈplaɪstəˌsin] Occupation Sites of South Africa - South Africa
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1723This serial property contributes to the understanding of the origin of behaviourally modern humans, their cognitive abilities and cultures, and the climatic transitions that they survived. It is composed of three dispersed archaeological sites, Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Pinnacle Point Site Complex, and Sibhudu Cave, located in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa. These sites provide the most varied and best-preserved record known of the development of modern human behaviou WHS Oct 29, 2024, 6:58 AM cowpoke
The Cultural Landscape of Al-Faw [al faːw] Archaeological Area - Saudi Arabia
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1712Lying at a strategic point of the ancient trade routes of the Arabian Peninsula, the property was abruptly abandoned around the 5th century CE. Nearly 12,000 archaeological remains have been found, spanning from prehistoric times to the Late pre-Islamic era, testifying to the successive occupation of three different populations and their adaptation to the evolving environmental conditions. Archaeological features include the Palaeolithic and Neolithic tools of early people, tapered structures, c WHS Oct 29, 2024, 6:57 AM cowpoke
The Archaeological Heritage of Niah [niah] National Park’s Caves Complex - Malaysia
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1014This complex of colossal, interconnected caverns is located near the west coast of Borneo Island at the centre of Niah National Park. It contains the longest known records of human interaction with rainforest, spanning at least 50,000 years, from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene periods. The rich archaeological deposits, prehistoric rock paintings and boat-shaped burials found at the northern edge of the massif illustrate biological and human life during this time, and contribute greatly to WHS Oct 29, 2024, 6:57 AM cowpoke
Te Henua Enata [te ɛnɥa ɛnata] – The Marquesas [maʁkez] Islands - France
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1707Located in the South Pacific Ocean, this mixed serial property bears an exceptional testimony to the territorial occupation of the Marquesas archipelago by a human civilisation that arrived by sea around the year 1000 CE and developed on these isolated islands between the 10th and the 19th centuries. It is also a hotspot of biodiversity that combines irreplaceable and exceptionally well conserved marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Marked by sharp ridges, impressive peaks and cliffs rising abrupt WHS Oct 29, 2024, 6:56 AM cowpoke
Schwerin [ʃveˈʁiːn] Residence Ensemble - Germany
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1705Created for the most part in the 19th century in what was then the capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in northeast Germany, the property comprises 38 elements, including the Grand Duke’s Residence Palace and manor houses, cultural and sacred buildings, and the Pfaffenteich ornamental lake. But it also fulfils all the functions required of a ducal capital in terms of administration, defence, service infrastructure, transportation, prestige and cultural activities, with parks, cana WHS Oct 28, 2024, 6:47 AM cowpoke
