UNESCO’s newest additions to the World Heritage Sites roster include everything from Rome’s Via Appia to the Marquesa Islands, Pleistocene-era sites and a vast peatland in Scotland.
The United Nations’ UNESCO agency recently announced 24 major additions to its list of World Heritage Sites. It’s a designation that helps preserve landmarks and places — some 1,223 of them in 168 countries — that are of such cultural, educational or scientific importance, they “belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located,” the agency says.
The sites added to the list this year include architectural marvels, biodiverse lagoons and archaeological sites that date back 162,000 years. It’s a fascinating list that includes everything from Nelson Mandela legacy sites in South Africa to the northern frontier of the Roman Empire in what is now Romania, an area that includes ancient fortresses, watch towers and encampments and buildings in the Roman province of Dacia.
The Flow Country — a vast bog peatland — in Northern Scotland made the list, as did the stunning Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia and a Malaysian cave complex in Niah National Park. The cave complex in Malaysia’s Niah National Park are among 24 landmarks added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in 2024. Archaeological Heritage of Niah National Park’s Caves Complex, MalaysiaUNESCO has just added the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia to its list of World Heritage Sites in 2024.
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