the.com/cultural heritage
the stuff dead people left you that you didn't ask for but can't sell.
means the inherited traditions, monuments, languages, and artifacts a group carries forward as proof it existed before you and will after.
from formalized in the 1972 unesco world heritage convention, born from postwar panic that bulldozers and looters were erasing the evidence faster than anyone could argue about who owned it.
unesco sitesover 1,200 listed, and growing yearly
intangible categoryadded in 2003, covers dances, not just buildings
ownership fightsmuseums still arguing over other countries marbles
war targetdestroying it is now a prosecutable war crime