First theory states that the village's name was mummy, due to discovering lot of mummies in Mieh w Mieh's territories. What supports this theory is that the largest part of Mr. Ford's archeological collection that exists in the Lebanese National Museum is extracted from Mieh w Mieh's territories.

The Second theory suggests that due to that a lot of water sources existed in the area, thus the village was called Mayya w Mayya, which means water and water in the Assyrians Language (al-louga al - syrianiyya).

Christians started to come to village in the beginnings of the 18th century , the state gave some of its land to farmers , and they had to pay the 10% of the crops.

The families of "Nakad" and "Faddoul" were the owners of half of the land there , than in the 19th century it came to American missionaries.

Our ancestors were hard working people, they have passed by difficult times, especially the Turkish occupation, world war I & II, and they fought for their land, and refused to leave it for any price. Until the present time, Mieh w Mieh's inhabitants are still fighting in similar circumstances, and are focused with determination into staying in their lands.

Mieh Mieh in year 1966, where a celebration was held on the village main square for inauguration of St. Mary Statue.

Mieh w Mieh church was first built in 1757, and renewed on 29/6/1934 the work ended on 1937 , it was constructed using 800 Lebanese pounds , which were given by the 800 habitants of the village that day.

St. Mary Statue - 1966

Soon we will have an update of Mieh w Mieh families origins, where we would try to shed lights on each of the families roots and where it comes from.