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China and Italy top UNESCO's World Heritage Site listings with ancient city and Prosecco wine
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In the race for the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites, two countries are hot on each other's heels: China and Italy.
China's most recent addition to the list is a 5,000-year-old city in the Yangtze River Basin — the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu.
The site is one of the earliest examples of Chinese civilisation and dates back to about 3300–2300 BCE.
Described as the last Neolithic jade culture in the region, the society was based on rice cultivation.
Burial practices reveal luxury products like jade, silk and ivory were placed with the rich, while pottery was commonly housed with the poor.
"These ruins are an outstanding example of early urban civilization expressed in earthen monuments, urban planning, a water conservation system and a social hierarchy expressed in differentiated burials in cemeteries within the property," UNESCO said.
The listing of the archaeological discovery from the 1930s briefly tipped China into top spot for heritage sites with 55, after the largest mudflat system in the world was added to the list.
The migratory bird sanctuaries found along the coast of the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Bohai in China were found to be of "global importance".
"Large gatherings of birds, including some of the world's most endangered species, depend on the coastline as a stopover to moult, rest, winter or nest," UNESCO said.
But Italy soon caught up, with a new listing of its Prosecco vine-growing hills in the country's north-east.
A slew of cultural and natural sites were newly inscribed on the World Heritage List at a UNESCO committee meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan in recent days, including the addition of the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in Australia.
The Indigenous aquaculture site, near Portland in Victoria's south-west, is older than the pyramids and was created about 6,600 years ago by the Gunditjmara people.
Another significant listing was the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq, with the remains described as "a unique testimony to one of the most influential empires of the ancient world".
"Seat of successive empires, under rulers such as Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon represents the expression of the creativity of the Neo-Babylonian Empire at its height," UNSECO said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...unescos-world-heritage-site-listings/11288536
Posted about an hour ago
In the race for the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites, two countries are hot on each other's heels: China and Italy.
China's most recent addition to the list is a 5,000-year-old city in the Yangtze River Basin — the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu.
The site is one of the earliest examples of Chinese civilisation and dates back to about 3300–2300 BCE.
Described as the last Neolithic jade culture in the region, the society was based on rice cultivation.
Burial practices reveal luxury products like jade, silk and ivory were placed with the rich, while pottery was commonly housed with the poor.
"These ruins are an outstanding example of early urban civilization expressed in earthen monuments, urban planning, a water conservation system and a social hierarchy expressed in differentiated burials in cemeteries within the property," UNESCO said.
The listing of the archaeological discovery from the 1930s briefly tipped China into top spot for heritage sites with 55, after the largest mudflat system in the world was added to the list.
The migratory bird sanctuaries found along the coast of the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Bohai in China were found to be of "global importance".
"Large gatherings of birds, including some of the world's most endangered species, depend on the coastline as a stopover to moult, rest, winter or nest," UNESCO said.
But Italy soon caught up, with a new listing of its Prosecco vine-growing hills in the country's north-east.
A slew of cultural and natural sites were newly inscribed on the World Heritage List at a UNESCO committee meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan in recent days, including the addition of the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in Australia.
The Indigenous aquaculture site, near Portland in Victoria's south-west, is older than the pyramids and was created about 6,600 years ago by the Gunditjmara people.
Another significant listing was the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq, with the remains described as "a unique testimony to one of the most influential empires of the ancient world".
"Seat of successive empires, under rulers such as Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon represents the expression of the creativity of the Neo-Babylonian Empire at its height," UNSECO said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...unescos-world-heritage-site-listings/11288536
