The citizens consider this area as in need of rehabilitation, in order to put it on the Jordanian archaeological map.

[1] The modern-day village is largely built atop the remains of archaeological sites that are scattered throughout its area.

Many trade caravans passed through there, an activity that stopped after the Islamic capital moved from the relatively close city of Damascus to the far-off Baghdad.

Researchers have called the three structures the Umm al-Walid eastern, central, and western castle, in regard to their location within the ancient village.

[2][5] The castle is shaped like a cube, with dimensions of 70.5 x 70.5 m3[2] and is surrounded by fifteen towers, which contain entrances from the East, and a corridor and a main square.

[2] The palace is built from trimmed stones, some of them taken from other buildings which date back to the previous eras, the Roman and Byzantine,[2] and the walls inside are colored white, which was common in the Umayyad period.

A stone porch, considered the first of its kind in Jordan in terms of style, was discovered in the 1993 season by a Swiss archaeological expedition.