Ancient village in Jordan is now a Unesco World Heritage Site


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Umm Al-Jimal is Jordan’s seventh historical site on Unesco’s World Heritage List. — Handout

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

Unesco, which hosted a meeting of its World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, India from July 21 to 31, said on X last week that the earliest structures uncovered at Umm al-Jimal date back to the first century CE, “... when the area formed part of the Nabataean Kingdom”.

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