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- Biggs, Robert (2005). "My Career in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago†. 19 (1). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-02-27.
