The Scribe’s Revelation: Preserving the Code of Hammurabi

The Scribe's Revelation: Preserving the Code of Hammurabi

In the heart of Babylon, during the eighteenth year of King Hammurabi’s illustrious reign (circa 1750 BCE), a young scribe named Adad-shum-usur worked diligently in the royal archives, meticulously transcribing the revolutionary legal code that would become one of the most significant judicial documents in human history. The Code of Hammurabi represented far more than … Read more