Oppenheim's Myths and Mythologies

Oppenheim's views typify what i have often encountered when studying the work of archaeologists concerned with the mental, ideological landscapes of antiquity. I would rather focus on what the documentation at our disposal does reveal. By way of examp i have chosen to concentrate on the site known to the sumerians as uruk, biblical, erec, greek, orkoe, arabic, warka,. One of the first great cities in mesopotamia and the locus of writing's invention around three thousand 400 b c.