print email comment close The Code of Hammurabi (The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School) URL: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/hammenu.htm Description: Hammurabi, king of Babylonia from 1792-1750 B.C., created one of the earliest written collections of laws. The preamble, text, and epilogue of the Code of Hammurabi are listed at this site. Also included are commentary by a scholar and an article from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , as well as a dictionary of terms. Publisher: The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School Extra Keywords sumer Library of Congress Subject Headings: Code of Hammurabi Law -- Iraq -- Babylonia LII Database Information: Record 9707 created by Helen Anderson on 10/07/2000 Last modification on 10/26/2001 Published: 10/07/2000   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/9707