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The Sun god Šamaš reveals the divine laws to the babylonian King Hammurabi - resulting in this ancient legal text, 1750BCE, describing hundreds of rules. A famouse one: „eye for an eye“.

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The Sun god Šamaš reveals the divine laws to the babylonian King Hammurabi - resulting in this ancient legal text, 1750BCE, describing hundreds of rules. A famouse one: „eye for an eye“.

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The Code of Hammurabi, a 2.25-meter basalt stele inscribed with one of the world's earliest legal codes, Babylon, c. 1750 BCE

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The Code of Hammurabi, a 2.25-meter basalt stele inscribed with one of the world's earliest legal codes, Babylon, c. 1750 BCE

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One of the oldest legal texts on Earth, carved in stone. Details of the Code of Hammurabi.

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One of the oldest legal texts on Earth, carved in stone. Details of the Code of Hammurabi.

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The Battle of Changping in ancient China, is infamous for being one of the bloodiest battles of antiquity, because several hundred thousand soldiers were buried alive. In fact so many people were killed, that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s

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The Battle of Changping in ancient China, is infamous for being one of the bloodiest battles of antiquity, because several hundred thousand soldiers were buried alive. In fact so many people were killed, that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s

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An ancient Greek drachm from Knossos, in Crete, depicting the goddess Hera on one side and a labyrinth on the other, representing the city's identity and its connection to the famous myth of the Minotaur

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An ancient Greek drachm from Knossos, in Crete, depicting the goddess Hera on one side and a labyrinth on the other, representing the city's identity and its connection to the famous myth of the Minotaur

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