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abylon, meaning the ‘Gate of Gold’ was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. It was situated in Mesopotamia, a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq. Its location today is marked by a board area of ruins on the east of Euphrates River, 90 Kms south of Baghdad, Iraq.
Hammurabi was the most famous of Babylon’s kings. He is believed to have ascended the throne in 1792 BC. During the reigns of Hammurabi and his son Samsu-iluna, Babylonian civilization reached the heights of its cultural development and political power. The world’s first standing army was raised by Hammurabi. Rival cities were attacked and conquered one by one. In time, he became master of the whole of Mesopotamia. The laws codified by Hammurabi have won great fame.
The code of Hammurabi is a collection of the laws and edicts of the renowned Babylonian King Hammurabi. It is the earliest known complete legal code. In 1901 a team of French archaeologists at Susa, Iraq unearthed a copy of the code, engraved on a block of black diorite. Nearly 8 feet in height, the block was restored and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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