https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Faeces, toilet paper, wet wipes and cotton earbuds were among the sewage littered around the UNESCO site of the pre-historic rock art in Alta, northern Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20210420/sewage-washes-ashore-at-norways-prehistoric-unesco-world-heritage-site Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:30:47 +0200 sewage-washes-ashore-at-norways-prehistoric-unesco-world-heritage-site A set of 7,000-year old rock carvings have been found deep inside the Arctic Circle in a sensational discovery that is being compared to the Unesco-protected Alta petroglyphs found 40 years ago. https://www.thelocal.no/20150826/7000-yr-old-elk-carving-found-in-arctic Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:58:16 +0200 7000-yr-old-elk-carving-found-in-arctic The hydroelectric dam sabotaged in the Kirk Douglas war film The Heroes of Telemark has been named as the centre of a new world heritage site by the UN’s cultural arm Unesco. https://www.thelocal.no/20150706/new-world-heritage-site-in-norway Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:46:48 +0200 new-world-heritage-site-in-norway Norway's government is lobbying to get three Viking ship burial grounds and a viking quarry classified as Unesco World Heritage sites, hoping that this will help draw more tourists the country. https://www.thelocal.no/20131218/norway-pushes-to-get-viking-sites-on-un-list Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:55:00 +0100 norway-pushes-to-get-viking-sites-on-un-list Norway has selected a football commentator’s ecstatic outpouring of emotion and political one-upmanship as one of the most important cultural documents in the country’s history. https://www.thelocal.no/20120208/football-commentators-maggie-thatcher-outburst-makes-unesco-list Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:05:01 +0100 football-commentators-maggie-thatcher-outburst-makes-unesco-list