
Hammurabi (hàm´e-rä´bê,
hä´m¢-)
Died 1750 B.C.
Babylonian
king (1792-1750) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified
the laws of Mesopotamia and
Sumer.
Hammurabi
Hammurabi (häm¡rä´bê), fl. 1792-1750 B.C., king of BABYLONIA. He founded an empire that was eventually destroyed by raids from Asia Minor. His code of laws, found on a column at Susa, is one of the greatest of the ancient codes.
Science,
1947
British archaeologist Francis Steele reconstructs
the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi law code from excavations made at Nippur
before
1900.