The findings show that the place was inhabited during the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Muslim periods.

[4][1] French archaeologist Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau visited the site in 1873 and suggested the ruins were the remains of a church.

The village was established in the 4th or 3rd century BC and continued up to the Bar Kokhba revolt, The archaeological findings include narrow streets, remains of buildings, ritual baths, rock-cut tombs and a synagogue.

[2][5] After the Bar Kokhba revolts the top part of the site reveals evidence of terraces, winepresses and burial caves from the late Roman and Byzantine periods.

[2] Today, researches suggest that based on the archaeological finding at Umm el-Umdan it can be identified as the village of Modi'in.