Uruk was once the templed city of Inanna and priceless artifacts such as her mask and vase have been recovered after looting during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
Prominent online atheist anti-theist Jonathan M. S. Pearce, who runs the blog, A Tippling Philosopher (1), provides an example of the fairly standard I approach the tower of Babel story in Genesis 11 with the goal of seeking to understand which aspects of it can be verified by secular archaeology and linguistics.