Culture is the collection of a society’s beliefs, customs, arts, language, and values. Every society has a culture which generally produces similar behaviour and way of thinking among people who live in that society. Cultural heritage, therefore, is people’s way of life (behaviours, ideas, acts and artefacts) which is passed on from one generation to another (Ekwelem, Okafor & Ukwoma, 2011 ).
The main feature of the cultural heritage is indicated as “outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science”. Following assets are considered as cultural heritage by UNESCO when a convention for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage was organised in 1972: monuments, architectural works, sculptures, paintings, inscriptions, cave dwellings, sites (man-made, natural or archaeological) (UNESCO, 1972).
Video 1: Introduction to Cultural Heritage