Category: Endangered Sites
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Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
Uluru’s Iconic Red Rock – Copyright, Yifei Wu Uluru is one of the world’s most iconic natural sacred sites. It has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of Sites. The site is sacred to the Anangu people of Australia who also co-manage the site and give guided tours of areas accessible to visitors.…
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Site of Palmyra
Site of Palmyra, Photo courtesy of Francesco Bandarin, Wikimedia.org Name of Site: Site of Palmyra Where is it: North-east of Damascus, Syria Why is it sacred?: The site of Palmyra contains numerous temples where multiple ancient gods were worshipped. Specifically, the temple of Ba’al, originally dedicated to Mesopotamian god Bel, or Ba’al, is considered a…
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Seokguram, Korea
Name of Site: Seokguram Where is it: On the slopes of Mount Toham, Gyeongju, South Korea Who Considers it Sacred: The Korean; specifically Buddhists Why: When Seokguram was built in the 8th century under the Silla dynasty, its people believed in Buddhism and thought “they would be able to attain Buddhahood through the worship of…
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Dangsannamu, Jocheon-eup, Jeju Island, South Korea
Dangsannamu located in Jocheon-eup, Jeju Island, South Korea. Photo Courtesy of Gang Jeong-Sik, Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture Name of Site: Dangsannamu Where is it: At the entrance of each village or on the grounds of a village shrine South Korea Who Considers it Sacred: The Korean and the village peopleWhy: Dangsannamu is worshipped as…
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Nazca Lines Damage Update
Nazca Lines Hummingbird Photo source: WikiCommons by Unukorno Peru’s Minister of Culture, Diana Álvarez-Caldrón, continues to pursue the highest legal measures against Greenpeace, who seriously damaged the hummingbird figure, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nazca Lines, one of Peru’s great cultural treasures. She is holding Greenpeace responsible for illegally entering a restricted area…
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Nazca Lines, Peru Damaged by Greenpeace
Greenpeace Damages Sacred Nazca Lines: Photo by Thomas Reinecke/TV News Sacred Nazca Lines Damaged by Greenpeace Greenpeace Activists damaged the sacred Nazca Lines, huge markings in the landscape known as geoglyphs. On December 8, 2014, the activists put large cloth letters among the images, the closest of which was the hummingbird figure. The…