(a) Excavations and Decipherment.
Kaulen, Fr.—Assyrien und Babylonien nach den neuesten Entdeckungen. (4th ed. Freiburg 1891.)
[Popular account of excavations, method of decipherment, Babylonian literature and architecture. A work in English of this character is much to be desired. See also Hommel, F.—Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens. Berlin 1885. pp. 30-134; Evetts, B. A.—New Light on the Holy Land. London 1891. pp. 79-129.]
(b) History.
Duncker, Max.—Geschichte des Alterthums. Vols. I. and II, (5th ed. Berlin 1878.)
[Also English translation of earlier edition.]
Hommel, F.—Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens. (Berlin 1885.)
---- Geschichte des alten Morgenlandes. (Stuttgart 1895.)
[Chapters I., IV.-VIII.]