Okay damian let me start by differentiating between the city's of Ur and Uruk

You'll see that they are two different places.
The evidence uncovered by leonard wooley comes from Ur. Wether or not this correctly portrays ritual suicide and under what circumstances is debatable.
there has been no evidence whatsoever uncovered from Uruk that shows anything at all. all they did was a magnetometer survey, which was completed two years ago.
The only other evidence that the whole court killed themselves comes from one erroneous translation by Pettinato that his new version of gilgamesh says so. that was also two years ago and as a student of sumerian culture this is the first i've heard.
This is very relevant as finding a new version of gilgamesh (there are scores of different tablets telling the story already) is akin to finding a new version of genesis where adam and eve stay in the garden.
and what started this thread rolling was the fact that the assyrian national news agency apparently can't tell the difference between 01-25-2005 and 06-05-2003
I agree that theres a difference between the two. One just didn't happen or at least the only evidence it did comes from mr pettino.
I'm putting his recent work up there with mr sitchin for veracity.
The Gods were all astronauts and at the same time they were present on earth the human race was killing off its noblemen every time the king died. or ???