The exposure of the bath corroborates historical sources that indicated the existence of a Jewish settlement in the region.

Bar-Ilan archaeologists uncover Philistine temple at Biblical Gath (July 2010)

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "This is the only Crusader inscription in the Arabic language ever found in the Middle East."

The bathhouse may have been used by an inn situated on an ancient road that ran through the southern Ayalon Valley, and it might also have been part of a wealthy country estate.

A ritual bath exposed beneath the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem shows that the construction of that wall was not completed during King Herod's lifetime.