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The earliest structures at the site date back to the first century AD, when it formed part of the Nabataean Kingdom.

Jordan’s Umm al-Jimal village has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, a move hailed by the country’s tourism and antiquities minister as a “great achievement”.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which is hosting a meeting of its World Heritage Committee in New Delhi in India, said on X on Friday that the earliest structures uncovered at Umm al-Jimal date back to the first century AD, “when the area formed part of the Nabataean Kingdom”.

It added that inscription in “Greek, Nabataean, Safaitic, Latin and Arabic uncovered on the site … sheds light on the changes in its inhabitants’ religious beliefs”.

The village is near the Jordanian-Syrian border, 86km (53 miles) north of Jordan’s capital Amman, and is known as “the black oasis” due to the prevalence of black volcanic rock in the area.

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