History

Codes of Hammurabi :

Basalt stele on which laws of Babylonian King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) were written was found in 1901 in Elam-Susa, Iran.
Laws were written in Akkadian and cuneiform on a 2.5m cylindrical basalt stone.

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