City officials in Bologna have closed a city-center square as they study what to do about the Garisenda Tower. A solution could take years.
Tag: World Heritage Sites
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In Peru, a Fossil-Rich Desert Faces Unruly Development
The Ocucaje Desert, where paleontologists recently unearthed the ancient skeleton of the world’s heaviest animal, is being overtaken by human settlement.
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Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead
The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.
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Workers Plow Through Great Wall of China, Leaving a Hole
The pair, a 38-year-old-man and 55-year-old woman, used an excavator to widen an existing gap and make a shortcut, the authorities said.