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This is a list of cultural heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deliberately, or by a natural disaster, sorted by continent, then by country. Cultural heritage can be subdivided into two main types—tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The former includes built heritage such as religious buildings, museums ...
The List of World Heritage in Danger is compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) through the World Heritage Committee according to Article 11.4 of the World Heritage Convention, [ nb 1] which was established in 1972 to designate and manage World Heritage Sites. Entries in the list are threatened ...
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. E. Extinct Indigenous peoples (1 C, 5 P) Extinct Turkic peoples (1 C, 24 P)
Uncontacted peoples generally refers to Indigenous peoples who have remained largely isolated to the present day, maintaining their traditional lifestyles and functioning mostly independently from any political or governmental entities. However, European exploration and colonization during the early modern period brought Indigenous peoples ...
UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance. [1] This list is published by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the members of which are elected ...
Robert E. Howard ( Hyborian Age) Édouard Lalo ( Le roi d'Ys) H. P. Lovecraft often invoked the names of lost lands of his own invention, a practice that subsequently gave birth to the Cthulhu mythos. Geoffrey of Monmouth first mention of Avalon in his Historia Regum Britanniae. Plato. Augustus Le Plongeon.
Lists of endangered languages are mainly based on the definitions used by UNESCO. In order to be listed, a language must be classified as "endangered" in a cited academic source. Researchers have concluded that in less than one hundred years, almost half of the languages known today will be lost forever. [ 1] The lists are organized by region.
Palaungic peoples. Wa (Vāx): One of the hill tribes of Myanmar (They are also distributed in Yunnan Province, China in East Asia ). Zomi (Zo Pau): One of the Indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia. The word Zomi is the collective name given to many tribes who traced their descent from a common ancestor.