French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1870 and found ancient cisterns, cut stones built up in the houses, a broken lintel with a garland carved upon, and the fragments of a column. He further noted that the village had about seven hundred inhabitants, and was administered by two sheikhs and divided into two different areas.
During his 1870 visit to the village, French explorer Victor Guérin observed ancient structures, including cisterns, stone-built homes, a broken lintel with an ornamental garland, and column fragments. He also documented that the village had around seven hundred residents, was governed by two sheikhs, and consisted of two separate districts.