[1] An ancient site in a valley 1 km north of the community is sometimes identified as Kfar Amiko of the Talmud,[2][3] but that identification is generally made with Amqa.

[8] The ancient site is best known as the traditional resting place of Yonatan Ben Uziel who was a student of Hillel the elder, of the first century BCE.

[9][better source needed] The first description of the tomb was provided by Yaakov ben Netanel HaKohen in the second half of the 12th century, where he marvels at how the Jews managed to cut the graves into the mountain.

In the 19th century, the explorer Victor Guérin saw there "the base of a pillar and a number of hewn stones - the remnants of an old structure, possibly a synagogue.

"[11] Tzvi Ilan writes that today some of the hewn stones are centralized in the center of the ruin like a platform for worship.