[4][5] The site was examined by A. H. Layard in 1853 who also found mace heads inscribed "E.GAL ha-am-mu-ra-pi" - "(property of) the palace of Hammurabi".

[7] In 1957, during an archaeological survey of the region (Adams site #414), it was reported to have been partially destroyed by a modern canal construction.

It was worked for 8 seasons between 1978 and 1985 and again in 1999 by the Iraqi State Antiquities Organization, under the direction of Sd.

[9][10][11][12][13] A number of Old Babylonian period cuneiform tablets were found in Levels II and III and are now held at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.

About 70 of the tablets have been published and are from a private context and record contracts of two generations of a commercial family.

Finds included three cylinder seals and a number of terracotta plaques, models, a toilet, a funerary chapel, and figurines.

One cylinder seal was inscribed with the text "Awil-Adad, son of La-sani, servant of Sin".