Code o Hammurabi

The Code o Hammurabi is a weel-preserved Babylonie code o law o auncient Mesopotamia, datit tae aboot 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is ane o the auldest deciphered writins o signeeficant lenth in the warld. The saxt Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enactit the code.

Code o Hammurabi
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Creatitc. 1754 BC
Author(s)Hammurabi
PurposeLaw code