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The 48th World Heritage Committee met in Busan and inscribed 25 new sites — from the D-Day beaches and Mount Olympus to the Buddhist site of Sarnath…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 13, 2026
UNESCO added 25 new sites to its World Heritage List in 2026 — among them the D-Day landing beaches of Normandy, the mythological home of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus, and the Indian site where the Buddha is said to have preached his first sermon. The…
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The Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944 (France) were perhaps the most anticipated. The listing covers Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches plus Pointe du Hoc, together with surviving stretches of the German Atlantic Wall and the American…
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The remaining inscriptions round out an unusually wide-ranging year: Alamūt Castle (Iran), Gdynia Modernist City Centre (Poland), Mount Amel Castles (Lebanon), the Rock Mosques of Mangystau (Kazakhstan), the Royal Capetian Fortresses of Languedoc (France)…
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The most quietly significant story of 2026 is representation. Comoros, São Tomé and Príncipe, and South Sudan each earned their very first World Heritage inscription — a reminder that the list is still filling in large blanks, especially across Africa and…
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