[5] Excavations at the site has shown pot sherds dating from the Late Bronze Age, up to and including Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman times.

"[8][9] Al-Damun was captured by the Crusaders, who referred to it as "Damar" or "Damor", during their invasion of the Levant in 1099;[5] and it remained in their hands unlike most of Palestine, which was conquered by the Ayyubidss under Sultan Saladin in 1187.

[8][11] Al-Damun, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 the village was located in the Akka Nahiya (Subdistrict of Acre), part of the Safad Sanjak (District of Safed).

[12][13] Until the late 18th century the village was ruled by the local Zaydani clan, which rose to prominence in the Galilee through the campaigns of Sheikh Zahir al-Umar.

[8] In the late 18th century, Giovanni Mariti noted that around al-Damun and Mi'ar were two "delightful valleys, ornamented with groves and wild shrubs.

Israeli historian Benny Morris said that inhabitants were demoralized by the fall of Acre and then Nazareth, and so fled during the bombardment that preceded the attack on the village.

[5] Al-Damun is among the Palestinian villages for which commemorative Marches of Return have taken place, typically as part of Nakba Day, such as the demonstrations organized by the Association for the Defence of the Rights of the Internally Displaced.

The structure that formerly protected the central water source and regulated its flow stands untended and is collapsing in several places.

"[5] British historian Andrew Petersen writes that the village had a number of eighteenth or nineteenth-century stone houses, some which had decorated facades.