After Hammurabi’s death, his system of laws became something of a classic in the ancient world, and scholars have found examples of them written on tablets, which were copied as late as the 5th ...

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 ...

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.

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.

From Judge James Peterson's decision Friday in Ervins v. Sun Prairie Area School Dist. (W.D. Wis.): February 1 was the first day of Black History Month, ...

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 ...

Hammurabi’s laws cover a great deal of legal territory, and scholars believe they were likely drawn from real cases that the king or his judges presided over. Examples include laws governing crimes ...

Archaeologists have uncovered for the first time in Israel fragments of a law code that resemble portions of the famous Code of Hammurabi. The code was found on two fragments of a clay tablet, and ...