The United Nations, Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has confirmed that Al-Ahsa Oasis is a unique heritage landscape as well as an exceptional example of the interaction between people and the surrounding environment, which effectively contributed to registering it on the World Heritage List. UNESCO explained that this oasis located in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula is full of gardens, irrigation channels, pure water springs, wells, Lakes , historical buildings, urban fabric and archaeological sites which indicate enduring and stability of humans in the Gulf region since the New Stone Age (Neolithic Era) up to present, adding that the unique feature of Al-Ahsa Oasis is seen as the largest palm oasis in the world. For his part, the Permanent representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to UNESCO Ibrahim Al-Balawi said during his speech at the World Heritage Committee meeting that the Oasis is the most important witness in the world that reflects adapting to climate change, where humans created an environment suitable for living and production and this oasis is the cradle of civilizations in the Arabian Peninsula, pointing out that the oasis existed before oil as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took a strategic decision since 1932 to transfer all of the oil industries away from the Oasis, despite the largest oil field in the world being there.
