Description

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has coordinated the preparation of the serial transnational World Heritage nomination of the Silk Roads since 2003, in close cooperation with five Central Asian countries and China. Together, they organized regional and sub-regional consultation meetings, established the inter-governmental Coordinating Committee, which brings together 16 participating countries and Bhutan as Observer and elaborated a thematic study on the Silk Roads.

This project was important to reinforce the capacity of national authorities in South Asian countries, particularly Bhutan and Nepal, for the documentation and surveying of archaeological and architectural sites and the digitization of archives.