Today · Thursday, 25 June 1 airing
00:06
BBC World Service
The Code of Hammurabi
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Misha Glenny and guests discuss the laws that Hammurabi the King of ancient Babylon, had carved into a black basalt pillar in present-day Iraq and which, since its rediscovery in 1901 in present day Iran, has affirmed Hammurabi's reputation as one of the first great lawmakers