The frenetic technological development, the exasperated consumerism, and uncertainty about the future of our planet, globalization and the globalization of human activities, have increasingly favoured, in different countries and communities, a collective national conviction of the need to maintain and recover ties with the past and with what constitutes the historical memory of humanity's cultural heritage.There are things that we regard as important to preserve for future generations. They may be significant due to their present or possible economic value, but also because they create a certain emotion within us, or because they make us feel as though we belong to something – a country, a tradition, a way of life. They might be objects that can be held and buildings that can be explored, or songs that can be sung and stories that can be told. Whatever shape they take, these things form part of a heritage, and this heritage requires active effort on our part in order to safeguard it. This article considers the contemporary status of this concept and argues that its constituent principles continue to provide a basis upon which a more comprehensive international law regime might be constructed to protect the world's cultural heritage, also the present condition of different heritage sites will be discussed. The interrelation between Globalisation, common heritage and cultural heritage will also be discussed in the article.