Hammurabi

Hammurabi (about 1700 BC), Emperor of Babylonia.

Hammurabi ruled the Babylonian Empire for forty-three years.

He is remembered because he drew up a strict set of laws which showed great wisdom.

The laws were carved on a stone pillar and this was found at Susa, in present-day Iran, in 1901.

It can be seen today in the Louvre Museum, Paris.

See Marc Van De Mieroop King Hammurabi of Babylon