Four thousand years ago, around the time the Hammurabi Code was written, ancient Babylonians celebrated the start of the new ...

A series of strong Amorite kings—including King Hammurabi, famous for compiling the world’s first legal code—enabled Babylon to eclipse the Sumerian capital, Ur, as the region’s most ...

Babylon rose to prominence under the rule of King Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BCE), whose brutal approach to justice and legal ...

We know of Babylon, one of the world's earliest splendid cities. We know of Hammurabi, whose Code of Laws numbers among one ...