Peru's Sacred City of Caral-Supe was added to the UNESCO's (Unite Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage List on Sunday.

The city, being the oldest center of civilization in the Americas with 5,000 years of history, is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe River. The 626-hectare archaeological site dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the Central Andes.

Exceptionally well-preserved, the site is impressive in design and architectural complexity, especially its monumental stone and earthen platform mounts and sunken circular courts.

The World Heritage Committee meeting here in Spain from June 22believes that the city's plan and its pyramidal structures and residence of the elite show clear evidence of ceremonial functions, signifying a powerful religious ideology.

Also on Sunday, the historic center of Slovakia's Levoca town was added to the country's Spissky Hrad site as an extension.

The site which was first inscribed in 1993 on the World Heritage List is now known as Levoca, Spissky and the Associated Cultural Monument. It now features the historic town-center of Levoca founded in the 13th and 14th centuries within fortifications.

Late on Saturday the committee added Britain's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal to the heritage list. France's Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains was also extended to the site of Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, which was inscribed in 1982.

The ongoing 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee will continue inscribing sites and examining the state of properties already included on the list here in Seville until Tuesday.

Source: Xinhua