US and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged four cultural and historical sites, including palaces and an ancient mosque. Although the buildings have not been hit by missiles directly, the shock waves ...

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The director of UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Lazare Eloundou Assomo, says he is deeply concerned about the fate of world heritage sites in Iran and across the region, after Tehran's Golestan palace, ...

GUWAHATI, (IANS) – The ‘Charaideo Maidam’, a 700-year-old mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in eastern Assam, has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list under the ‘cultural ...

For over 400 years, the Golestan Palace and its ornate mirror halls, lush gardens, and intricately tiled facade have stood as a testament to Persian opulence and the artistic and political heritage of ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Bethlehem leaders are reacting to news that the U.S. is once again leaving the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO. President Trump made the ...

ISTANBUL — There's an old Persian phrase about a particular place in the city of Isfahan — the famed Naqsh-e Jahan Square. "The sort of nickname for it is nesf-e-jahān, which means 'half the world.' ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites, including palaces and an ancient mosque, raising alarms about the impact of the ...

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites, including palaces and an ancient mosque, raising alarms about the impact of the widening war on protected ...

Revered cultural icons that have withstood the upheavals of history are being hit hard in the war being waged by Israel and the United States. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has covered Iran for ...