 In 1992, the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums took charge of the site, and a fresh series of campaigns revealed earlier strata, of the Middle and Early Bronze Ages (second half of the third millennium and the first half of the second millennium BC) the "Imar" that was mentioned in the archives of Mari and elsewhere.Beginning in 1996, the Syrian effort was joined by a team from the University of Tübingen Germany.So far, around 1100 tablets in Akkadian have been recovered from the site,
800 from the excavation and around 300 emerging on the antiquities market.