 Potsherds from the early and late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.Yamun, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as “Yamoun”, located in the "nahiya" of Sara in the "liwa" of Lajjun.It had a population of 28 households, all Muslim.