Can you spot a UNESCO World Heritage Site from space? We can, and we’ve got nine new ones to prove it 🛰️ @UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee wrapped in July its 48th session in Busan, South Korea. The World Heritage List now holds 1 273 sites across 173 countries. We’ve teamed up with UNESCO to show you nine of the new inscriptions, the way only a satellite can see them. First up: Mount Olympus in Greece. The ancient Greeks believed the gods lived here. Homer and Hesiod wrote about it, and Mount Olympus, home to Zeus, the Muses and the Graces, became one of the defining symbols of Greek civilisation. It’s also Greece’s highest mountain, and its position, close to the sea and rising sharply from it, creates a microclimate found almost nowhere else in the country. Glacial cirques, limestone cliffs, sinkholes carved by water, and jagged ridges like the Mytikas-Stefani complex all sit within a few kilometres of each other. Deep gorges such as the Enipeas still show the mountain s...