While most people know of Hammurabi as the author of his famous “law code,” few know that the tradition of the ruler as the guardian and administrator of justice began much earlier in Mesopotamian history. Already in the third millennium, a king called Uruinimgina (ca. 2350 BCE; also known as Urukagina) commissioned a set of reforms that can be viewed as a precursor to the laws of Hammurabi
nice!
Archaeology helps us answer the mysteries of the past. But what about those mysteries that sound too good to be true? Is there evidence that giants existed? Are Archaeologists hiding information about ancient aliens? Did Vikings visit El Paso County? Watch the first part in this ten-part lecture series, “Exposing Hoaxes, Busting Myths, & Solving Mysteries” by Dr. Ken Feder, Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University.
{Also in Archaeology Today}
ETA
Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Manabu Ashihara, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 - Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Manabu Ashihara, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945
Ok,ok. The cover picture of this video isn’t matching to music, I know… But it was a scandal in the 1960’s. An androginous band with men in heavy teathrical makeup singing about the victims of the A-Bomb.
Cheers!
Basically a souped-up OCR, but it does make new sources available.
Well… yeah, that’s why historians who study that era get trained… 
