 The Ottoman "defter" for Transjordan from 1538 to 1596 neglect Dhiban, which implies that the settlement declined through the 16th century.Families of the pastoral nomadic Bani Hamida tribe established modern Dhiban in the 1950s and both built upon preexisting structures and used them for raw materials.In the following years the land surrounding the tall were distributed to the community for private ownership and the tall itself remains Jordanian government property.