UN to recognize Old Europe's defenses?

And we mean old Europe:

British and German researchers have united to create a European rival to the Great Wall of China.

They have asked Unesco, the United Nations cultural organisation, to give world heritage status to the chain of forts, castles, walls and ditches built by the Romans to defend the northern limits of their empire.

The first stage of the project would include Hadrian's Wall in England and 300 miles of forts, ditches and banks in modern Germany that protected the Romans' north-west frontier. Later, the project's backers plan to extend this to include the entire Roman defence chain, from Britain to the Black Sea.

Posted by David on March 20, 2005 8:22 PM