Hammurabi began his 42-year reign as “king” of Babylon (located in present-day Iraq), in 1792 BC. What most history books fail to mention is that, like other governors of the City-State of Mesopotamia ...
Investigating and comparing legal codes and legal thinking of the ancient societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, India, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and of the ancient Rabbis, this volume ...
Although Babylon declined after Hammurabi’s death, its importance as the capital of southern Mesopotamia, now known as Babylonia, would linger for millennia. Monumental FollySaddam Hussein’s ...
seeing it as a recognition of the significance of Babylon and Mesopotamian civilisation. Announcing its decision, Unesco said: "Seat of successive empires, under rulers such as Hammurabi and ...