We give our compliments to the Country considered as the last Eldorado, to receive from UNESCO such important award. We need to invite milions and milions tourists to joint territories of Kazakhstan, a land full of natural history.
Rotterdam, 15/07/2014-Mikhail Lermontov
8 Silk Road monuments in Kazakhstan added to UNESCO World Heritage List
July 15, 10:51
UNESCO has added eight settlements of the Great Silk Road located at the territory of Kazakhstan onto its World Heritage List, tengrinews reports.
The decision to enter the section of the Great Silk Road onto the List
was taken at the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO
that took place in Qatar’s Doha. It is called the Routes Network of
Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor and is a 5,000 kilometer section of the Silk
Road that took shape between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD.
It stretches from Chang’an/Luoyang, China’s capital during the Han and
Tang Dynasties, to the Zhetysu region in Central Asia. It was used until
the 16th century AD.
There are 33 objects of the Silk Road in the list altogether. These
include trading settlements, tombs and religious buildings, Buddhist
cave temples, fortifications, ancient paths, posthouses, capital cities,
palace complexes of various empires and Khan kingdoms, passes, beacon
towers and sections of The Great Wall.
8 of these are located in Kazakhstan: settlements Aktobe, Kostobe, Kulan, Kajalyk, Talgar, Ornek, Akyrtas and Karamergen.
The idea of including the Silk Road in the UNESCO World Heritage List
originated back in 2005. Now, scientists and academics are working to
include other monuments of the Great Silk Road in the UNESCO World
Heritage List.
