[3] He reported that it was the largest site he had seen in Transjordan after Amman and that Jalul occupied a commanding position on "the brow of an elevated ridge of the land, and looking over an extensive space to the south of it, of a lower level than the great plain by which we had approached this spot from the north".

[3] Buckingham noted that the site was divided by an area empty of structure into eastern and western sections containing numerous ruins mostly characterized by columns, piles of large hewn stones and a few cisterns, grottoes, tombs, and sarcophagi "exhibiting a melancholy example of the wreck of former opulence and power".

[3] Jalul was surveyed in 1976 by the American archaeologist Robert Ibach during work at the sites of Tell Hisban and Tall al-Umayri by a team from the Madaba Plains Project and Andrews University.

[2] Excavations of the site by Andrews University's Madaba Plains Project began in 1992 after permission was granted by Jordan's Department of Antiquities after an earlier attempt in 1984 was rejected due to local security concerns.

[6] Circa 1900 it was acquired along with the sites of Huwwarah, Umm Qusayr and Natil by the Zaben clan of the large Bedouin Beni Sakhr tribe for cultivation.