UNESCO assessing flood-affected Ayutthaya, World Heritage site

BANGKOK, Nov 30 – The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) water specialists and experts from four countries are now surveying the Ancient City of Ayutthaya in Thailand to assess the impact to the World Heritage property from the country’s most disastrous flooding in decades, according to the world cultural body.

International experts from Italy, Japan, Netherlands and Thailand headed to Ayutthaya on Tuesday for a three-day mission to survey the site in order to understand the extent of damage and develop further recommendations for a short and long term restoration plan to the Thai Government, the UNESCO said in a statement released here on Wednesday.

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