The Code of Hammurabi is inscribed on this seven-foot basalt stele. The stele is now at the Louvre. The Code of Hammurabi refers to a set of rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi
This is a Babylonian type code of law that would date all the way back to the times of ancient Mesopotamia (around 1754 B.C.). This also known to be one of the world's most oldest writing that can still be understood.
