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The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242

Hammurabi, King of Babylonia, 1811? BCE-1751? BCE; Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter), 1857-1920 [Translator]

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