Originally, Hammurabi would have displayed the stele at the site of Sippar, in modern-day Iraq, likely in a prominent temple. In ancient times, Sippar was the home of the sun god Shamash, and the ...

Plaintiffs' theory that the teaching of Hammurabi's Code is an unconstitutional establishment of religion cannot be squared with Lemon or any other Establishment Clause standard.

What made Hatshepsut, Cyrus the Great, and Elizabeth I legendary? These visionary rulers shared surprising qualities that ...

Hammurabi’s Code was based partly on Sumerian laws but prescribed its own harsher penalties for some offenses, including death or mutilation for crimes by commoners resulting in bodily injury ...

This doesn’t necessarily mean that Hammurabi was the originator of all, or even most, of the laws he laid down. Other written examples of ancient law, such as the Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu and the ...

Hammurabi boasted that any subject involved in a dispute could read the laws and learn “what is just.” Well, roll over Hammurabi, because the U.S. federal government has apparently abandoned ...

But when Hammurabi hit me — this was something new and, for me, devastating. It felt like an illness, a cancer. No matter what I did or where I went, I couldn’t forget it.

By feeding the computer 14,100 cleaned images of 235 different signs, the team taught it to recognise nearly every mark on a test tablet that carries the first clause of Hammurabi’s Code ...

Sometime around 1780-70 B.C., the Babylonian King Hammurabi promulgated the now famous Code of Hammurabi, covering both civil and criminal law. The code is said to have informed both Jewish and ...

Hammurabi’s regime, built on conquest and plunder, hardly provides a model for peace, democracy or human rights. But his colorful curses express the essence of the rule of law: that any ruler ...