At the 45th World Heritage Committee meeting in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, UNESCO members decided to add more than 40 new World Heritage Sites to the list of protected areas and buildings.
We won’t know the full list until September 25, though–until then, discover below some of the most recent additions to the record of our planet’s heritage.
Gaya tumuli
The Gaya Tumuli are burial mounds built by the Gaya, an ancient confederacy in the South of the Korean Peninsula.
They are thought to provide clues about Gaya society.
An evaporitic karst region in Italy is described.
It includes over 900 densely packed caves, some of which are believed to be the deepest known gypsum caves in the world.
Eisinga Planetarium
In the Dutch city of Franeker sits a real-time, mechanical scale model of the solar system, based on what astronomers at the time thought the Earth looked like.
Cold winter deserts of Turan
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