Enûma Eliš
Jao was a highly versatile and prolific scholar. His research covered a vast range of humanities, including oracle bones, archaeology, epigraphy, folklores, religion, art history, musicology, literature, and Near Eastern Studies. Over his 80-year-long career, he published more than 100 books and about 1,000 scholarly papers. He spent ten years translating the Akkadian epic "Enûma Eliš" into Chinese, filling a major gap in Chinese knowledge of ancient Babylon.