Nippur was the religious center of the Sumerians in Babylonia.
See;
- James A., Armstrong The Archaeology of Nippur from the Decline of the Kassite Kingdom until the Rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, University of Chicago 1989.
- Steven Cole, Nippur in Late Assyrian Times, 750-612 B.C., University of Chicago 1990.
- Vaughn Emerson Crawford, Nippur, the Holy City, Archaeology 12 (1959), s. 74-83.
- McGuire Gibson, Excavations at Nippur: Twelfth Season, Chicago 1978.
- idem: Nippur (1975), Sumer 34 (1978), s. 114-121.
- Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht, Die Ausgrabungen in Bel-Tempel zu Nippur, Leipzig 1903.
- Edward J. Keall, The Signifacance of Late Parthian Nippur, University of Michigan 1970.
- J.E. Knudstad , Excavations at Nippur, Sumer 22 (1966), s. 111-114; Sumer 24 (1968), s. 95-106.
- D.E McCown., R.C. Haines , Nippur I: Temple of Enlil, Scribal Quarter, and Soundings, Chicago 1967.
- D.E. McCown et all., Nippur II: The North Temple and Sounding E, Chicago 1978.
- Richard L. Zettler: The Ur III Temple of Inanna at Nippur: The Operation and Organization of Urban Religious Institutions in Mesopotamia in the Late Third Millennium B.C. Berliner Beitraege zum vorderen Orient 11. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1992
- idem: Nippur III: Kassite Buildings in Area WC-1, Chicago 1993.