[3] Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilised archaic human found in Western Asia.

[4] Together with the remains found at Es Skhul and the Wadi el-Mughara Caves, this find was classified in 1939 by Arthur Keith and Theodore D. McCown [de] as Palaeoanthropus palestinensis.

It was originally attributed to a Mousterian stratum and is now thought to be from an earlier Acheulo-Yabrudian complex.

[6] The frontal bone and part of the upper face were found in the Mugharan level, which leads to an estimate of the age of the fossil to range from 200 to 500 kya.

[12] The skull is housed in the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem along with many other findings of Turville-Petre.