 A building, dating to the late Ottoman, or early British Mandate era have been excavated.In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Barbara had a population of 1,369 inhabitants, all Muslims, which had increased in the 1931 census to 1546, still all Muslim, in 318 houses.In the 1945 statistics the population of Barbara consisted of 2,410 Muslims and the land area was 13,978 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.