WHAT IS CULTURAL HERITAGE Cultural heritage is something of value, something handed down to us from previous generations. It carries the stamp of those who came before us. This is inherited property. It is inherited for its historic, cultural, or natural significance. The heritage can either be physical artifacts such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, biodiversity, books, works of art or intangible attributes of a group of people or society as a whole such as language, knowledge, norms, and values. Cultural heritage is a window through which a nation sees and understands itself, by learning from an inherited body of knowledge, attitudes, norms, and values. From cultural heritage, we learn the ways of life of the past, the meaning of words, appropriate behavior, and conduct. Because of its important cultural heritage is preserved or looked after with care so that it can be handed down to future generations. People travel miles across the globe to see, marvel, and learn fro...
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