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The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon. B.C.2285-2242.The discovery and decipherment of this Code is the greatest event in Biblical Archæology for many a day. The laws were enacted by a king of Babylonia in the third millennium B.C., whose rule extended over the whole of Mesopotamia from the mouths of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates to the Mediterranean coast. We must regard this with particular interest.
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