UNESCO adds 9 sites to world heritage list

The U.N. cultural agency on Friday placed nine new sites on its World Heritage List, including a medieval Armenian city located in northeast Turkey.
•    UNESCO added the old city of Ani, in the Turkish province of Kars to its prestigious list during a meeting in Istanbul. Ani, near Turkey's now closed border with Armenia, once served as the capital of the Armenian kingdom in the 10th century. 
Newly put on the heritage list are -
•    Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (China) 
•    Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara (India) 
•    The Persian Qanat (Iran)
•    Nan Madol: Ceremonial Center of Eastern Micronesia (Micronesia) 
•    Stecci -- Medieval Tombstones Graveyards (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia)
•    Archaeological Site of Philippi (Greece) 
•    Antequera Dolmens Site (Spain)
•    Archaeological Site of Ani (Turkey) &
•    Gorham's Cave Complex (Britain)
•    The World Heritage Committee also selected Micronesia's artificial islets of Nan Madol and simultaneously placed it on the List of World Heritage in Danger.