Bismaya : recovering the lost city of Adab - Wilson, Karen L. (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2012)
"The University of Chicago conducted excavations at the site of Bismaya (ancient Adab) in southern Iraq from December 24, 1903, until late June 1905. The work was first directed by a young American Assyriologist, Edgar James Banks, then by Victor S. Persons, an architect who had originally gone to to the Near East to assist Banks"--Preface