 Archaeological excavations have revealed flint from the Mousterian culture, several knapped using the Levallois technique.Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as "Um al-Ganam", located in the "Nahiya" of Tabariyya, part of Safad Sanjak.