# UNESCO’s tentative listing of historic Alexandria is a later conservation-access instrument for her city’s fabric

Date: 2002

## The fact

The 2002-era UNESCO tentative list for Alexandria’s historic quarters is a completed conservation-policy instrument. She did not file it. Access to a port city’s remains is the path.

## Context

Tourism and underwater archaeology fight on the same harbour. Medium confidence on welfare size.

[Cleopatra](/people/cleopatra) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official museum, UNESCO, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: UNESCO tentative — Historic quarters and monuments of Alexandria (https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1827/; UNESCO World Heritage Centre).

## Significance

A tentative World Heritage file is not a 30 BCE death.

A tentative World Heritage file is not a 30 BCE death.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Cleopatra: https://factrail.ai/people/cleopatra

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1827/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cleopatra-queen-of-Egypt

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cl-unesco-alexandria-tentative