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__________ is a collection of 282 clauses engraved on a 7-foot-high stone slab, is one of the earliest set of recorded laws, and the most extensive one to survive from ancient times.

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Hammurabi's Code

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The Hammurabi Code is a very well kept Babylonian Law Code of medieval Mesopotamia, from around 1754 BC.

It is among the oldest known de-crypted texts of considerable duration. The code was introduced by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi.

Hammurabi's Code was sculpted on a huge, finger-shaped black stone slab pillar plundered by invaders and lastly found in 1901.

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