[1] Pottery and building remains from the Iron Age I have been excavated in the northwestern part of the village.

[5] The massive wall, (width c. 2.4 m), probably enclosed an area of about 25 dunams, and has frm pottery remains been dated to Iron Age IIA (ninth century BCE).

[6] The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found caves and rock-cut cisterns in the village, which they noted appeared to be an ancient site.

[9][10] A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, though misplaced, named as Touran.

"[14] The French explorer Victor Guérin visited Tur'an in 1870, and estimated it had 350 Muslims and 200 "Greeks".

[17] In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tur'an had a population of 768; 542 Muslims and 226 Christians.