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Authorities reveal discovery of fourth century Roman shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast

According to the ministry, the site has been under constant monitoring by Italy’s financial police to “protect the site from possible looting and to preserve its enormous scientific value.”

Divers carrying amphorae from the fourth century AD Roman shipwreck discovered off the coast of Gallipoli, southern Italy in June 2025.
The Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee approved the advancement of a controversial bill to establish an authority to oversee antiquities and heritage sites in the West Bank, February 5, 2026.

Israel advances bill for authority over West Bank heritage, archaeology sites

Soon, memory of the Holocaust will rely not on firsthand accounts but on documentation, interpretation, and increasing technological forms of representation.

The digital front line: Safeguarding Holocaust memory in the age of AI - opinion

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks during the Italy–Germany Business Forum at the Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi, in Rome, Italy, January 23, 2026.

Germany establishes diplomatic ties with Niue, signaling the importance of the Pacific - opinion


Israel should return to UNESCO - editorial

Now Israel could seek to return to UNESCO, and it is possible that such a move can be done alongside the United States.

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Google criticized by Jewish organization for 'allowing' antisemitism

The controversy began in 2007 when Kamau Bobb, known for being Google's head of diversity, wrote a post where he wrote that Jews have "an appetite for war and killing."

Google Doodle for Israel's election day

ORT launches Ghanaian computer courses for girls, with support of UNESCO

Thanks to the support of UNESCO, Nduom Group and Coconut Grove Hotel, not only will ORT be able to educate these young girls, but the local library will also get new computers.

The library in Elmina, Ghana, will function as a new service of STEM education thanks to ORT

UNESCO chief set for new term, eyes US return - official

The official told Reuters that the signals from the new U.S. administration were positive and that the objective was to make progress on the issue over the coming months.

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Archaeologists uncover ancient ceremonial carriage near Pompeii

Massimo Osanna, the outgoing director of the Pompeii archaeological site, said the carriage was the first of its kind discovered in the area.

A partial view of the ancient archaeological site of Pompeii is pictured in front of Mount Vesuvius April 17, 2014

Poorer nations begin slicing educational funding amid coronavirus

For comparison, before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, wealthier countries had been spending an average of $8,500 per child compared to $48 in lower income countries.

A teacher walks in a classroom with students keeping social distancing in a public school, after the reactivation of face-to-face classes, amidst an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bogota, Colombia February 15, 2021

Int'l Mother Tongue Day finds most Middle Eastern children multilingual

Speaking one language in school and speak another at home can be a "big problem" but new approaches could help, expert says.

Students attend class in the Nafit 1, a modern school built with the aid of a grant from Kuwait, in Basra, southeast of Baghdad November 2, 2014. A country that used to have one of the finest education systems in the Middle East is struggling to provide school students with the basic opportunity to

Hundreds of dead pelicans in Senegal test positive for H5N1 bird flu

Pelicans gather at the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary in Senegal, January 2020, in this still image obtained from social media video. Instagram/@David.W.Nystrom/via REUTERS

Palestinians, Jordan accuse Israel of ‘Judaizing’ Western Wall Plaza

The PA Foreign Ministry called on the United Nations Security Council to “halt the crimes of the Israeli occupation forces against al-Aqsa Mosque.”

A general view of Jerusalem's Old City shows the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in the foreground as the Dome of the Rock, located on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, is seen in the background.

The Olive Tree Road of Israel: Israel's secret UNESCO treasure

SINCE THE inauguration of the Road and the presentation of its founding Charter and map, local olive routes were established along the four paths of the Olive Tree Road.