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