[1] Ein Gedi (Hebrew: עין גדי) is frequently mentioned in the Bible, in the works of Josephus, in rabbinic literature, and in early Christian sources.

[4] In excavations conducted at a mound (tell) known as Tell el-Jurn near the spring at Ein Gedi discovered the remains of the Iron Age settlement of Tel Goren.

After the Bar Kokhba revolt Ein Gedi was reinhabited, initially at a smaller scale with growth into the Byzantine period.

[10] Jodi Magness presents a different interpretation, based among other elements on a similar phrase from the Damascus Document from nearby Qumran and the Cairo Geniza.

[11] Galen (129 – c. 216 CE) is the only pagan writer who explicitly links the special oil known as Shemen Afarsimon to Ein Gedi.

[2][13] Other than that, the findings included walls, pillars, and residential houses and other structures belonging to the village, documenting its eastward and northward expansion.