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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 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 Rosetta Stone, a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC

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The Rosetta Stone, a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC

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Basalt tablet with cuneiform inscription. Babylon, Iraq, 1098 BC

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Basalt tablet with cuneiform inscription. Babylon, Iraq, 1098 BC

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World’s oldest complaint a Babylonian clay table from 1750 BC, the complaint was written in Akkadian cuneiform by a man named Nanni to a merchant named Ea-nasir, expressing dissatisfaction with the quality of copper delivered

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World’s oldest complaint a Babylonian clay table from 1750 BC, the complaint was written in Akkadian cuneiform by a man named Nanni to a merchant named Ea-nasir, expressing dissatisfaction with the quality of copper delivered

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Babylonian Tablet with Inscribed Riddle, c. 1500 BC, British Museum

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Babylonian Tablet with Inscribed Riddle, c. 1500 BC, British Museum

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“Code of Hammurabi”

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“Code of Hammurabi”

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Two funerary steles, with warrior reliefs, made of limestone. From Prinias, Crete, of early archaic period, 7th c. BCE. Housed at the Heraklion archaeological museum

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Two funerary steles, with warrior reliefs, made of limestone. From Prinias, Crete, of early archaic period, 7th c. BCE. Housed at the Heraklion archaeological museum

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The Vyne Ring , a 4th-century Roman gold ring inscribed with a Latin curse. Found in Hampshire, England in 1785.

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The Vyne Ring , a 4th-century Roman gold ring inscribed with a Latin curse. Found in Hampshire, England in 1785.

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