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Robert D. Biggs
Professor of Assyriology, Emeritus

Office:

The Oriental Institute
1155 East 58th Street, 315
Chicago, IL 60637
(773)702-9540

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1962.
Teaching at Chicago since 1964.

Email: r-biggs@uchicago.edu
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Third Millennium Sumerian, Akkadian Literature, Babylonian Medicine, Babylonian Omens.
Editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies .