Also joining that list this year are Gaza, the Swahili Coast, and the Turkish city of Antakya. The organization, known for protecting sites like Machu Picchu and temples in Cambodia, is drawing ...

Some of the choices are not terribly surprising. Climate change threatens Africa's Swahili Coast and 66 historic lighthouses on the coast of Maine. A natural disaster befell the historic city of ...

28, 1982 THE MAKING OF THE SWAHILI: A View from t... THE MAKING OF THE SWAHILI: A View from the Southern End of the East African Coast This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

Traditional Swahili society is similar to many other ... Persians and Arabians and conversion to Islam did not change the coast's African matriarchal traditions, confirms that this was not a ...

Many of the sites on the list were included due to the threat from climate change, such as the Swahili coast in Africa, which is threatened by coastal erosion and increasing sea levels.