[3] Occupation at Habuba Kabira North began in the Uruk period and continued in the Middle Bronze age.

[8] The Hubaba Kubira was excavated for 9 seasons from 1969 to 1975 by a Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft team led by Ernst Heinrich and Eva Strommenger.

Hubaba Kubira South was found to be a planned settlement with a three meter wide mudbrick town wall with regular towers and two gates.

[9][10][11][12] The site had at least three occupation layers, dated to the Late Chacolithic (LC 4-5) and covering about 120 years, corresponding to the Uruk V and IV periods.

[13] In the next phases it grew to its final extent which, including extramural habitation north and south of the wall, covered 22 hectares.

[3] Only the southeastern portion of Hubaba Kubira North was excavated as the rest of the mound was covered with a modern cemetery.

[21] Tell Qanas, the citadel area of Habuba Kubira South, was excavated beginning in 1967 by a Belgian team led by André Finet.