Heritage Humanity facts

While investigating facts about Heritage Humanity, I found out little known, but curios details like:

About the Memory of the World Programme. It is an international initiative to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction.

In 1933 Adriano Olivetti, general manager of Olivetti, tried to turn the Italian town of Ivrea in to the ideal human city. Today, Ivrea is being considered by the UN as a World Heritage Site.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Heritage Humanity I managed to collect.

1. In 2016, Belgian beer was added to United Nations' list of the " Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity"

2. About UNESCO's Memory of the World Program - an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and wilful and deliberate destruction.

3. Mexican cuisine was the first to achieve UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity desgination.

4. Eurocentrism caused scientists to consider a fake fossil found in England as proof of Humanity's european heritage for 40 years while real fossils were simultaneously being discovered in Africa.

5. Dia de los muertos (Day of the dead) is on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

6. Croatian Gingerbread craft was officially recognized by UNESCO in 2010 as being representative of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.