See:
- Edgar James Banks Bismya or The Lost City of Adab New York ,G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - http://www3.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_title.pl?callnum=DS70.B2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adab_(city)
- Karen Wilson, Excavations at Bismaya (ancient Adab), Iraq - https://web.archive.org/web/20060904235327/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/wl/digsites/Mesopotamia/Bismaya_04/