Pompeii Is Added to World Heritage List

The U.N.’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization added the ancient Roman town of Pompeii to its list of sites of “outstanding universal value” and warned that many wonders of the world are at risk. “Pompeii is a major archeological site and was a must to put on the World Heritage List,” the director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Center said in Naples, where the agency’s experts have been meeting. Besides Pompeii, the Paris-based agency’s World Heritage Committee approved the addition of 45 other sites to the list, raising the total number of protected treasures to 552.