Let us be courageous in preserving the universal... The challenge for UNESCO today is whether its mission of promoting shared respect for science, art, beauty and human habitat can survive if the ...

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay called the moment 'historic', noting that Samarkand is often described in literature ...

Erbil's residents, from Kurds and Turkmen to Christians and Muslims, celebrate a deep-rooted coexistence, viewing it as a ...

Safety culture can appear nebulous and it can be unclear how to improve it or indeed how the shift occurs. This has led to a broad number of approaches which are associated with improvements in safety ...

The temporary structures will return next month—but in the meantime, visitors will enjoy rare unobstructed views of the ancient hilltop temple in Athens Cool Finds The marble sculpture, discovered at ...

Reflecting on the development of Arabic studies in Japan since 1925, Professor Tetsuo Nishio, Director of the Center for Global Mediterranean at the National Museum of Ethnology and member of the ...

Mosul, Iraq -- In the narrow alleyways of Old Mosul, where church bells once intertwined with voices and hymns of worshippers, the Christian presence today teeters on the brink of disappearance.

On this day, 2,632 years ago, the ancient metropolis of Nineveh fell. “ ABC 3” is a historiographical text from ancient Babylonia which records August 10th 612 BC as the date of this dramatic ...

UN war crimes investigators found that the US military has inflicted a “staggering loss of civilian life” with its relentless airstrikes in and around the Syrian city of Raqqa. The sheer scale of the ...

Sunny with a high of 92 °F (33.3 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 9 mph (8 to 14.5 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 70 °F (21.1 °C). Sunny ...

Bill Belichick sold his UNC football program as the "33rd NFL team." Through five games as a college football coach, the Tar Heels rank 128th in points per game out of the 136 NCAA Division I Football ...