UNESCO Adds 42 New World Heritage Sites

The World Heritage Committee has named 42 new sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List . There are now 1,172 sites 42 of which were just named this week and last—that make up the list of global UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Among the newly inscribed group are an archaeological cemetery site in South Korea, a roadside inn in Iran, and a famed hop-growing region in Czechia. — including one in Israeli-occupied West Bank

The newly inscribed properties were announced during the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee being held from Sept. 10 to 25 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Of the 50 “candidate sites” being considered, these made the list:

• Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er, China
• Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites, Mongolia
• Gaya Tumuli, South Korea
• Gordion, Turkey
• Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt, Germany
• Koh Ker, Cambodia
• Modernist Kaunas, Lithuania
• National Archaeological Park Tak’alik Ab’aj, Guatemala
• Old town of Kuldiga, Latvia
• Prehistoric sites of Talayotic Menorca, Spain
• Santiniketan, India
• Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan 
• The Gedeo Cultural Landscape, Ethiopia
• The Persian Caravanserai, Iran
• Tr’ondek-Klondike, Canada
• Viking-Age Ring Fortresses, Denmark
• Zatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops, Czechia
• Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua, Congo
• Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelee and the Pitons of Northern Martinique, France
• Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan, West Bank
• Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University, Russia
• Khinalig People and “Koç Yolu” Transhumance Route, Azerbaijan
• Djerba, Tunisia
• Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas, India
• Yogyakarta and its Historic Landmarks, Indonesia
• The Maison Carrée of Nimes, France
• Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
• ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination, Argentina
• Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker, Netherlands
• Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, U.S.
• Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery, Suriname
• The Ancient Town of Si Thep, Thailand
• Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia, Turkey
• Zagori Cultural Landscape, Greece
• Anticosti, Canada
• Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines, Italy
• Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda
• Cold Winter Deserts of Turan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
• Uruq Bani Ma’arid, Saudi Arabia
• Tugay forests of the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve, Tajikistan
• Rwanda memorial sites, Rawanda
• Funerary sites of the First World War, Belgium and France