[3] The site was inhabited during the Middle Bronze Age, Iron II, Late Roman, Early Islamic, Mamluk, and modern era.

[4] The ancient Jewish farming village of Katzrin was built around a spring, which still flowed until recently.

Above-ground ruins already existed at the site, and archaeological excavations have increased the number of accessible ancient buildings.

Some of the buildings have been reconstructed on their ancient foundations and furnished with replicas of household goods and tools.

Costumed guides demonstrate and explain in Hebrew and English construction methods, agricultural and manufacturing processes.

[7] The basalt lintel of one of the houses unearthed in the Golan bears a Hebrew inscription that reads: "This is the beit midrash of Rabbi Elazar the Caper Maker.

The winters "forced tribespeople until the 19th century to live in hundreds of rudimentary 'winter villages' in their tribal territory.

[14] In the 1880s, Kisrin was described as "a small Bedawin winter village, with a group of beautiful oak trees and old ruins, south of el-Ahmediyeh".