UNESCO announces 9 new World Heritage Sites

9 new World Heritage Sites are

 Old city of Ani (Turkey): It is Turkish province of Kars. Once it had served as the capital of the Armenian kingdom in the 10th century.

Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape (China): Dates back to the 5th century 

 BC. The landscape straddles steep cliffs in southwest China and represent the only trace left of the Luoyue people.

 Qanat (Iran): They are ancient aqueducts trapped into alluvial aquifer and transported water

 underground across vast valleys. It helps in sustaining agricultural life and settlements in the

arid areas.

 Nalanda Mahavihara (India): It is an archaeological site having remains of a monastic and

 scholastic institution dating from the 3rd century BC to the 13th century AD.

 Artificial islets of Nan Madol (Micronesia): They are 99 artificial islets made of basalt

 and coral boulders. They are home to ruins ranging from temple to tombs dating between 1200 and 1500 AD.

Stecci Sites: Located in Bosnia, central and western Montenegro, southern Croatia and 

 western Serbia.They are medieval tombstones and graveyards carved from limestone, they feature decorative motives and inscriptions.

 Ancient Philippi (Spain): It is Greek archaeological site founded in 356 BC by the Macedonian King Philip II. It is located in the present-day region of eastern Macedonia and Thrace.

 Antequera Dolmens (Spain): It is comprises of three megalithic monuments as well as two natural mountainous formations.

 Gorham’s Cave Complex (Britain): They are natural sea caves in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The site provides evidence of Neanderthal occupation over a span of more than 125,000 years.