User:Sumerophile is mistaken; Samuel Kramer consistently placed Aratta in the same location in all of his publications; namely, the region between Lake Urmiah and the Caspian in NW Iran. He was so convinced of this view that he titled his original monograph "An Epic Tale of Iraq and Iran".  He indicated his belief so unambiguously that I  seriously wonder if Sumerophile has ever even read even one of Kramer's works on the subject.  How can you possibly claim that Kramer ever "changed his mind" about Aratta's location? Where is the evidence?