Protecting coastal habitat, marine environments and cultural heritage is a key strategy for sustainable tourism. Sea life depends on the beaches, est...
Julio was born and lived his entire life in San Jose de Moro, Peru, site of a famed Moche cemetery and ritual center. Until 2011, Julio was a part-time day laborer in town, working for under ten dollars a day when jobs were available.
Returning stolen objects does not save archaeological sites, creating jobs does. Especially the right kind of jobs.
You don't need to be a professional writer to record your own family history and recipes. Just spend some time with the person who cooks your favorite dishes.
Jared Diamond has a new book out, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies, and academic anthropologists are again up in arms.
With the escalating human toll, the survival of monuments may seem to be an extraneous issue. Yet cultural heritage is a mainstay of life, a spiritual and an economic asset now and in the future.
Military occupation is not only bad news for the people who live in Timbuktu, but also for its world-renowned centers of learning that house precious manuscripts, some of which date to the 13th century.
On October 5, 1804, the Santa María de las Mercedes sank, filled with gold and silver coins, worth $500 million. The treasure lay on the ocean floor for over two centuries, until, in 2007, it was discovered and a new battle began.
Egyptians value and utilize their cultural history as an economic asset and not merely an intangible cultural one.
Though it covers a huge range of disciplines, cultural heritage involves anything that defines us as social human beings, encompassing both the tangible and intangible. It is vital that we conserve and preserve it.
