Memory of the World Register

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by Variola virus (often called Smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in 1980, making smallpox the only human disease to have been eradicated.

1848 publication written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)

charter of rights agreed between King John of England and the nobility in 1215

The Rigveda or Rig Veda (, , from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (śruti) known as the Vedas. Only one Shakha of the many survive today, namely the Śakalya Shakha. Much of the contents contained in the remaining Shakhas are now lost or are not available in the public forum.

abjad found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions across the Mediterranean from the 11th–2nd centuries BCE

foundational document of the French Revolution

famous diary of a 13-year old Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis to escape the Holocaust

1927 German science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers. The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.

250px|thumb|First page from Manuscript C ( 1230) The ' (, or ; or ), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs''', is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The is based on an oral tradition of Germanic heroic legend that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries and that spread throughout almost all of Germanic-speaking Europe. Scandinavian parallels to the German poem are found especially in the heroic lays of the Poetic Edda and in the Völsunga saga''.

choral symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven

embroidered wall-hanging art depicting the Norman invasion of England

documentary heritage of worldwide importance, initiative launched by UNESCO

1989 peaceful demonstration in the form of a human chain

early book printed with movable type

1879 play by Henrik Ibsen

map of the road network in the Roman Empire

collection of German fairy tales first published 1812–15 by the Grimm brothers

artifact found in Nebra, Germany

former Security Prison 21, or S-21, under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole

book by Copernicus

manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves

English landowner and lesbian diarist (1791–1840)

Renaissance library belonging to Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-90)

ancient Greek papyrus roll

literary work

earliest known dictionary of Turkic Languages

map of the known world dating from c.1300

Serbian Cyrillic codex / manuscript from the 11th/12th century

1573 statute on religious freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

public library in Italy

oldest dated book of Kievan Rus'.

1940 speech by Charles de Gaulle

map of world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, 1507

photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen

6th century illuminated manuscript of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark

earliest surviving printed map of Hungary

16th century literary work

thumb|Cover of Seyahatname by Evliya Çelebi, 1895 edition

Kufic-script parchment manuscript of the Quran, written in what is now Iraq, dated to between 765 and 855 CE; contains 2:7–43:10 of the Quran

book by Pedanius Dioscorides

10th century Slavic church manuscript

1916 film by Geoffrey H. Malins

illuminated manuscript

library

Nazi report concerning suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & subsequent liquidation

atlas by Joan Blaeu, published from 1662

Memory of the World inscription, submitted by Latvia, added in 2001

daily record of the Royal Secretariat of Joseon

1906 film

artifact

right|thumb|300px|Il-Kantilena Il-Kantilena () is the oldest known literary text in the Maltese language. It dates from the 15th century (no later than 1485, the death of its author, and probably from the 1470s), but was not found until 1966 by the historian Mikiel Fsadni. The poem is attributed to Pietru Caxaro, and was recorded by Caxaro's nephew, Brandano, in his notarial register (Dec. 1533 – May 1563). It is preserved at the Notarial Archives in Valletta. In April 2025, Il-Kantilena was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

library

creation myth of the Bugis from South Sulawesi

manuscript

documents referring to victims of torture and murder during Operation Condor

centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions

manuscript collection