The Code of Hammurabi

In Our Time: History by BBC

Mar 12, 202649:49Society & Culture

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the laws that Hammurabi (c1810 - c1750 BC), King of Babylon, had carved into a black basalt pillar in present day Iraq and which, since its rediscovery in 1901 in present day Iran, has aff...

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