THE ORIGIN OF THE PATRIARCHAL STATE THE CODE IS IN CUNEIFORM ON A 14 FOOT PHALLIC PILLAR Author: C. H. W. Johns Publication Date: 1903 About The Book: The Oldest Code Of Laws In The World, The Code Of Laws Promulgated By Hammurabi, King Of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242. The Code of Hammurabi is one of the most important monuments in the history of the human race. Containing as it does the laws which were enacted by a king of Babylonia in the third millennium B.C., whose rule extended over the whole of Mesopotamia from the mouths of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates to the Mediterranean coast. Excerpt: “It is just cause for pride that Assyriology, so young a science as only this year to have celebrated the centenary of its birth, is able to emulate astronomy and predict the discovery of such bright stars as this. But while we certainly should have directed our telescopes to Babylonia for the rising of this light from the East, it was really in Elam, at Susa, the old Persepolis, that the find was made.” globalgrey.co.uk/oldest-code-of-laws-in-the-world/
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