Between 1950 and 1953, Israeli archaeologist Jacob Kaplan studied the site, ahead of the construction of new residential units and streets on it.
[5] In June 1998 another salvage excavation was conducted by Kamil Sari after ancient remains were damaged by work of the Electric Corporation.
The entrance of the cave faces the Yarkon River in the north, and in front of it lies an elliptical courtyard where installations used for various crafts such as pottery making were discovered.
Several rooms branch out of the cave's hall including one where a mixed layer of ash, potsherds and animal bone was found.
[3][4] It was dated by Kaplan to the Middle Bronze Age II period, the time of the Hyksos, a Mesopotamian people who ruled over Ancient Egypt at around 1650 – 1550 BCE.
Kaplan believes that this settlement was a small village or an estate owned by a Hyksos nobleman from the nearby Jaffa or Tel Gerisa.
[10] Few remains of the Late Bronze Age (1550 – 1200 BCE) were discovered, leading Kaplan to assume that the human settlement in the site was insignificant back then.
[12] It was also suggested that the assemblage of potsherds from the 8th century BCE are an evidence to local military preparations ahead of the Assyrian attack.
[13] Remains of structures and pottery from the Persian period were found on top of the Nordau 93 Early Bronze Age burial cave.
Potsherds were also found and are dated to the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Early Muslim periods, as well as a worn coin of the 1st century CE.