The site is around 1.5 km by 800 meters made up of 14 mounds with the highest being 17 meters high. [2] Haft Tepe was first surveyed by the French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan in 1908. The site was excavated in the period from 1965 to 1979 by a team from the University of Tehran, led by the Iranian archaeologist Ezzat Negahban.[3] Since 2003 excavations have been carried out by a team of German-Iranian archaeologists, including the University of Mainz, University of Kiel and the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, headed by Behzad Mofidi in four seasons through 2008.[4][5] In the 2006 season a number of cuneiform administrative tablets were recovered and are now being translated.