 A winepress, dating from the Byzantine period has been found.A coin, dating from the Umayyad (697–750 CE) era has also been found here

According to the Arab geographer Mujir al-Din (1456–1522), the village was home to the Muslim scholar sheikh "Yusuf al-Barbarawi", a local sage and a student of renowned scholar "Ahmad ibn Dawud", who died in 1323.During the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Murad III (1574-1596), Barbara's only mosque was built.