Early Babylonian Philosophy & Hammurabi's Code

A History of Mankind (29)

Like earlier codes, Hammurabi's was displayed on multiples copies engraved in stone[1], and in manuscripts copied by scribes, which made it well known to later rulers and scholars as extracts appear on tablets from Assur and Nineveh for the next 500 years; there are indications that some learned commentaries on it were written as early as the late 2nd m…