UNESCO inscribes 26 new sites on World Heritage list

UNESCO has inscribed 26 new locations onto its list of World Heritage sites. They include ancient ruins in Turkey to wildlife havens in Sierra Leone.

In Turkey, the site to get on the list this year is Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe. It is the ruins of a powerful Iron Age civilisation and includes the settlement, cemetery and temples the people built at that time.

In South Africa, iSimangaliso Wetland Park was inscribed in…