For the first time in Israel, a document has been uncovered containing a law code that parallels portions of the famous Code of Hammurabi. The code is written on fragments of a cuneiform tablet, ...

At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life like? Along with the pioneering legal code of Hammurabi, a wealth of ...

An artificial-intelligence system has read a Babylonian law tablet at 98 percent character accuracy, raising hopes that tens of thousands of clay tablets still lying untranslated in museums could soon ...

Israeli archaeologists say they have found two 3,700-year-old clay tablets that appear to contain legal pronouncements similar to the Code of Hammurabi and the biblical "tooth for a tooth" rule. The ...

Ancient tablets acquired by the British Museum decades ago have finally been deciphered - and they weren’t exactly good news for kings. A team of researchers have successfully decoded 4,000-year-old ...

The Code of Hammurabi refers to a set of rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi (reign 1792-1750 B.C.). The code governed the people living in his fast-growing empire. By the time of ...