A briefer statement was furnished by Professor Fr.

Delitzsch in his supplements to the German translation of George Smith's _Chaldaean Genesis_ (_Chaldaeische Genesis_, pp.

257-262).
A tolerably satisfactory account in English is furnished by B.T.

A.
Evetts in his work, _New Light on the Bible and the Holy Land_, pp.
79-129.

For a full account of the excavations and the decipherment, together with a summary of results and specimens of the various branches of the Babylonian-Assyrian literature, the reader may be referred to Kaulen's _Assyrien und Babylonien nach den neuesten Entdeckungen_ (5th edition).
[13] The most recent investigations show it to have been a 'Turanian' language.