King Hammurabi Lays Down the Law
Revviled and admired, envied and feared, ancient Babylon the remains of which lie some 50 miles south of Baghdad has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Yet thing could be more real than the magnificent code of Hammurabi stele, a 7ft high column of basalt upon which Babylons king inscribed 282 codified laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian scripts predate the hieroglyphs. This ancient tablet is one of the earliest known written records of the laws that give order and shape to human society.
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