[4] Pottery sherds from the late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Medieval eras have been found here.

The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 6,944 akçe.

[7] In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Zawata ‘’on the hill-side,’’[8] part of the Jurat 'Amra district, south of Nablus.

[9] In 1870, Victor Guérin noted Zaouata as "a village on a high hill with white limestone slopes, some used for quarrying.

[11] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Zawata as: "a village of moderate size, on a hill, with springs in the valley to the north.