The 2,500-Year-Old Japanese rice wine joins the ranks of Haiti's Joumou soup, Tajikistan's Oshi Palav, and Tunisia's Harissa. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of ...

If a country wants one of its cultural practices to be added to the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, it has to show that the element meets five specific criteria ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The United Nations' cultural heritage organization on Wednesday recognized Italian food as an intangible aspect of Italy's heritage, the first national cuisine to be formally protected ...

It’s hard to preserve those things that are not places or objects, but rather traditions, festivals, ceremonies, or specialized art. For that there is the UNESCO’s Lists of Intangible Cultural ...

Following Berlin techno being added to the German list of intangible heritage in 2023, electronic music has finally made it onto the French Intangible Cultural Heritage list. This represents the first ...

The annual Kano Durbar festival has been officially inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, according to Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO, Dr ...