Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on the 16th of November 1972. The convention came into force on the 17th of December 1975.
Egypt donated four temples to other nations as thanks for contributions to the Aswan High Dam campaign. These donations included the Temple of Dendur to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Temple of Debod to Madrid.
As of November 2024, there are 1,248 World Heritage Sites across 170 countries. Europe and North America hold 46.47% of the sites, while Africa holds 8.97% and the Arab states hold 7.77%.
Only three sites have ever been delisted from the World Heritage List. These sites are the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Oman, the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany, and the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City in the United Kingdom.
Nominated sites must be of outstanding universal value and must meet at least one of the ten criteria established by UNESCO in 2005. Cultural sites must represent a masterpiece of human creative genius, exhibit an important interchange of human values, or bear a unique testimony to a cultural tradition.