Pottery remains from the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic periods and the Middle Ages have been found here.

[4] Palmer suggested to identify Kafr Dan with Capher Outheni (Hebrew: כפר עותני), a village mentioned in the Talmud.

[5][6] In the census of 1596, Kafr Dan appeared as "Kafradan”, located in the nahiya of Sha'ara in the liwa of Lajjun.

They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 6,000 akçe.

[4] In 1838 Edward Robinson, calling it Kefr Adan, noted it among many other villages on the plain; Lajjun, Umm al-Fahm, Ti'inik, Silat al-Harithiya, Al-Yamun and el Barid,[8] located in the District of Jenin, also called Haritheh esh-Shemaliyeh.