The Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi
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ISBN-13 : 9781973773627
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Download or read book The Code of Hammurabi written by Hammurabi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Akkadian language in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over eight feet tall (2.4 meters) that was found in 1901.


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