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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


EU Parliament ‘deplores’ Palestinian textbook incitement - new resolution

This year’s resolution emphasized the need to remove antisemitic references and examples more than past versions.

Workers adjust a European flag outside the EU Parliament ahead of the EU elections in Brussels

At Mexico's Chichen Itza, archaeologists discover Mayan scoreboard

The circular piece, measuring just over 32 centimeters (12.6 inches) in diameter and weighing 40 kilos (88 lb), displays hieroglyphic writing surrounding two players standing next to a ball.

 Mexican archaeologists found a circular-shaped Mayan scoreboard used for a ball game at Chichen Itza's archaeological site, Mexican Anthropology and History Institute (INAH), in this handout picture released on April 10, 2023

Lebanon hopes UNESCO danger listing could save crumbling modernist fairground

Lebanese authorities have made a plea with UNESCO to save what remains of the Rachid Karami International Fairgrounds.

 General view shows the Rachid Karami International Fair in Tripoli

Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture birthplace

The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop over 1,000 years ago.

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Archaeologists find Greek gods' heads in ancient city of Aizanoi

Several heads of Greek mythology gods including Eros and Dionysus have been unearthed. 

Dionysus god of wine

US can rejoin UNESCO despite its Palestinian statehood recognition

Israel followed the US both in halting its funding to UNESCO in 2011 and in withdrawing from the organization in 2019.

 The UNESCO logo is seen during the opening of the 39th session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at their headquarters in Paris, France, October 30, 2017.

Jordan eyes tourism bonanza in expansion of Jesus' baptism site

A six-year $300 million project for a 'tourist city' next to the World Heritage site aims to attract five times as many visitors as the current 200,000.

 Custodian of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, stands by the Jordan River during a baptism ceremony, near Jericho, in the West Bank, January 9, 2022.

B'nai Brith, UNESCO to hold Hebrew symposium in Paris

The conference, entitled "Hebrew as a Treasure of Human Heritage," will mark a century since the passing of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who is widely regarded as the father of modern Hebrew.

 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew, in his home in Jerusalem, sometime between 1918-1923.

Corrosion has turned the Alhambra’s decorative gold leaf purple - study

The Alhambra, now a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage site, is a fortress and palace built in the 13th century under the Islamic rule of Spain.

Dawn on Charles V palace in Alhambra, Granada, Spain.

Social media plays large role in fomenting online hate - report

A report co-authored by the World Jewish Congress, UNESCO and the UN says that social media platforms have become sources of hate speech and discrimination.

 Antisemitism is lurking and rising on online platforms.