King Hammurabi posted a legal code containing 282 laws around 1750 B.C.
Sources
- Saving Iraq's Treasures (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.louvre.fr/en/the-code-of-hammurabi (louvre.fr)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Code_of_Hammurabi/ (worldhistory.org)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/Code_of_Hammurabi/ (worldhistory.org)
More in History
- Göbekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by approximately 6,000 years and is estimated to date to the 9th–10th millennium BCE.
- Ruth Bourne was a veteran of Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking center during World War II.
- During a 1906–1908 visit to Asia and North Africa, Charles Lang Freer acquired a biblical text and numerous ancient Egyptian sculptures, amulets, beads, and vessels.
- Göbekli Tepe's Building D measures at least 65 feet across and contains two freestanding central limestone pillars that are 18 feet tall and weigh an estimated eight tons each.
- The 1857 'Laws of Base Ball' was authored by former player Daniel 'Doc' Adams and established that bases would be 90 feet apart, games would have nine innings, and each side would have nine players.
- The vast majority of pigs eaten at late Neolithic ceremonial sites in southern England were not raised locally, but brought from different parts of Britain, including Wales and Scotland, from distances of at least 30 miles and potentially more than 350 miles.