[1][2] Chronologically the city reached its peak at the same time as the Old Kingdom in Egypt and the Early Dynastic III period in Mesopotamia.

Early Bronze period material from Tel Yarmuth has been radiocarbon dated and is being used to support the contention that EB III ended around 2500 BC.

[6] The entire site including the lower town was heavily occupied in the Early Bronze (EB) II and III periods.

[6] The EB II and III monumental construction includes the large "White Building", a plastered masonry broad-room temple with a side altar.

[7][8] A number of EB III flint Canaanite blades, believed to be used as sickle inserts or in threshing, were found.

Two-hundred thousand, and one-hundred and fifty people, great and small, male and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle and sheep, without number, I brought away from them and counted as spoil.

"[12] The only possible record for Yarmuth for this time-period (c. 539–331 BC) is taken from the Hebrew Bible, specifically the account of Nehemiah who returned with the Jewish exiles from the Babylonian captivity, during the reign of Artaxerxes I.

The high point, 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) in area, lies on the eastern side with a lower town extending to the west.

[15] American archaeologist Frederick J. Bliss, who visited the site at the start of the 20th-century, remarked seeing interior walls of a building that were 4 feet and 6 inches thick in diameter, and that early Roman and Arab potsherds could be seen there.

After 2016 the site was declared a national park and since then excavations have been conducted, under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, in preparation for public access.