The Hill News

When you enter the Chamber of the House of Representatives, if you look up near the ceiling, ringing around the room, you see bas-relief sculptures of 23 great lawgivers in history.

One of them is Hammurabi, the famous Babylonian ruler who put in writing the first law code.

The Code of Hammurabi was famous for its simplicity and directness. If you did this, you were punished this way. Even for most of the Babylonians who couldn’t read, they got the message.

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