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5 Unesco World Heritage Sites With Educational Roots

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5 Unesco World Heritage Sites With Educational Roots

Unesco designation: 2016 Established in the 5th century CE, Nalanda was a premier Buddhist monastic university, and the most ancient university in the Indian subcontinent, attracting scholars worldwide. One of the world’s first residential universities, it had over 10,000 students and 2,000 teachers. Source link

Heritage walk: What it takes to feature on the UNESCO World Heritage List

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Heritage walk: What it takes to feature on the UNESCO World Heritage List

World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical or scientific significance Last month, Spain set a new provisional heat record of 47.2 degrees Celsius for this year. Despite the heat, locals in Algar, a city of about 1,400 people in southern Spain, come out of their homes every evening to sit, relax … Read more