To the south of the present city, at Reeshire, are the remains of an earlier Elamite(c 3000 BCE) settlement.
As for Madaktu, instead, there is a representation on the walls of the palace of Nineveh, Assyrian city, dated 650 BC,
which describes the exodus of the Elamite court, then of the numerous harpists,
following the victory of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal on the Elamite army, near the city of Madaktu.