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.

The Code of Hammurabi refers to a set of rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi (reign 1792-1750 B.C.). The code governed the people living in his fast-growing empire. By the time ...

Well, roll over Hammurabi, because the U.S. federal government has apparently abandoned this almost 4,000-year-old principle. While most people are aware that federal regulations have been ...

The Code of Hammurabi offers a glimpse into a society that is both similar to and distinct from ours. What ultimately unites us and the ancient Mesopotamians, though, is a recognition that functioning ...

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.

One day, when I was in my early 20s and teaching Torah to religious newbies in Jerusalem, I felt the bedrock of belief shudder beneath me. There’s a reason the sages wrote that the air of ...

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 in Age of Empires Mobile is a prominent historical figure, known for being the sixth Amorite king of Babylon.

Archaeologists have uncovered for the first time in Israel fragments of a law code that resemble portions of the famous Code of Hammurabi.