Sentence examples for code of Hammurabi from inspiring English sources

In the Louvre in Paris there is a black Babylonian column with a relief showing the sun god Shamash presenting the code of laws to Hammurabi (died c. 1750 bce), known as the Code of Hammurabi.

Regulations on its production and trade go back to the Code of Hammurabi, circa 1750 B.C.

It was treated as a prominent institution in the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi of about 750 bce.

The Code of Hammurabi (18th century bc) in Babylonia provided a punishment of death by drowning for adultery.

Carved into it in cuneiform script is the Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian system of law in ancient Mesopotamia.

The Code of Hammurabi of Babylon, which dates from the 18th century bce, required artisans to teach their crafts to the next generation.

Here, Zycron is out of this world's time but echoes, as the often interrupted narrator explains, ancient earthly history — the Hittites, the Babylonian code of Hammurabi.

When the Attaway children study the ancient Code of Hammurabi or the breeding of silkworms, they visit the Museum of Natural History or the Japan Society.

"I.C.O.s represent the most pervasive, open and notorious violation of federal securities laws since the Code of Hammurabi," Mr. Grundfest said in an interview.

The ancient Mesopotamian laws of Eshnunna (c. 1900 bce) and the Code of Hammurabi had a number of articles devoted to slavery, as did the Pentateuch.

Shutruk-Nahhunte I captured Babylon and carried off to Susa the stela on which was inscribed the famous law code of Hammurabi.