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Code of Hammurabi: The World's Oldest Laws

6 min • 26 juni 2025

Long ago, King Hammurabi of Babylon wrote down a set of laws to keep order in his kingdom. Some were fair, others surprising! Travel back 4,000 years to learn what people thought was right and wrong back then.

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