Excavations were begun in 1958 by a team from the Free University of Berlin led by Anton Moortgat.

In Steinbau I, which had 6 building phases, decorated bronze vessels and bent copper pins with ball heads and flattened perforated shanks (similar to those in the royal cemetery at Ur) from the Early Dynastic period were found.

The temple had a processional way "lined with rough, megalithic stone stelai" between 2 and 3 meters in height.

Two teams worked at the site, one under the direction of Winfried Orthmann of the University of Halle and the other under Ursula Moortgat-Correns, until 1998.

[15][16][17] Excavation then was taken up by a team from the Goethe University Frankfurt, under the direction of Professor Jan-Waalke Meyer from 1998 to 2005.