The Code of Hammurabi: Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns

The Code of Hammurabi: Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns
ISBN-10
1987585038
ISBN-13
9781987585032
Series
The Code of Hammurabi
Pages
24
Language
English
Published
2018-04-07
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Hammurabi

Description

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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