The ceremonial women's costumes in the great East of Algeria, namely the "gandoura" and the "melehfa", are officially registered on the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, we learned, Tuesday evening, from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and this at the end of the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Heritage, which continues until the 7th of the current month.