Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/765/sc5.htm
- What It Means To Be Listed As A Unesco World Heritage Site
The Star Online (Bhag Singh) I always feel a little guilty about sneaking these somewhat global articles into an Egyptology blog, but in my own defence there is a chunk in the article about salvaging Abu Simbel from the advancing waters of Lake Nasser...
- Satellites In Support Of World Heritage
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMXDLVLWFE_environment_0.html "Last week the historic fortified town of Campeche, in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, was the centre for a Conference on the use of space technologies to conserve the world’s natural and cultural...
- Unesco 60th Birthday
http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2005/11/20/nation/nation1"UNESCO, the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organisation, marked its 60th anniversary last week (on Wednesday 16 November) with a call for world peace and the respect of...
- Forthcoming Session Of The World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185 "The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention...
- Convention Concerning The Protection Of The World Cultural And Natural Heritage
"The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris from 17 October to 21 November 1972, at its seventeenth session,Noting that the cultural heritage and the natural heritage are increasingly...
Egypt
Sixty Years of Beauty
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/765/sc5.htm
Looking at the important role of UNESCO and its iniatives in Egypt, past, present and future:
"With the UNESCO campaign for safeguarding the Nubia monuments, initiated some 45 years ago, Egypt marked the launch of one of the first large- scale cultural heritage salvation initiatives in the history of mankind . . . . The modern threat to the survival of the unique temples demonstrated that the conservation of the world's common heritage concerned all countries". See the full story, above.
"With the UNESCO campaign for safeguarding the Nubia monuments, initiated some 45 years ago, Egypt marked the launch of one of the first large- scale cultural heritage salvation initiatives in the history of mankind . . . . The modern threat to the survival of the unique temples demonstrated that the conservation of the world's common heritage concerned all countries". See the full story, above.
- What It Means To Be Listed As A Unesco World Heritage Site
The Star Online (Bhag Singh) I always feel a little guilty about sneaking these somewhat global articles into an Egyptology blog, but in my own defence there is a chunk in the article about salvaging Abu Simbel from the advancing waters of Lake Nasser...
- Satellites In Support Of World Heritage
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMXDLVLWFE_environment_0.html "Last week the historic fortified town of Campeche, in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, was the centre for a Conference on the use of space technologies to conserve the world’s natural and cultural...
- Unesco 60th Birthday
http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2005/11/20/nation/nation1"UNESCO, the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organisation, marked its 60th anniversary last week (on Wednesday 16 November) with a call for world peace and the respect of...
- Forthcoming Session Of The World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185 "The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention...
- Convention Concerning The Protection Of The World Cultural And Natural Heritage
"The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris from 17 October to 21 November 1972, at its seventeenth session,Noting that the cultural heritage and the natural heritage are increasingly...