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Jordan’s Umm Al-Jimal village has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, in a move hailed on Sunday by the country’s tourism and antiquities minister as a “great achievement”. UNESCO, which is hosting a meeting of its World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, said on social media platform 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 inscriptions in “Greek, Nabataean, Safaitic, Latin and Arabic uncovered on the site… sheds light on the changes in its inhabitants’ religi…

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