sentences:  He began his Assyriological studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, under Sidney Smith after the war.In 1952, he joined Max Mallowan's excavation at Nimrud under the aegis of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.Saggs was awarded his PhD degree in 1953 for his dissertation titled "A study of city administration in Assyria and Babylonia in the period 705 to 539 B.C."