Code of Ur-Nammu | Sumerian Laws (slave codes) | Oldest Laws on EARTH
You may not be aware the slavery and enslavement is as old as the planet... and add torture... these are pure EVIL and invented... Code of Ur-Nammu (SLAVE CODE, by the way) The first known version of the code in its current location Created c. 2100 BC–2050 BC Location Istanbul Archaeology Museums (Ni.3191) (originally Nippur , Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq )) Author(s) Ur-Nammu Purpose Legal code The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on tablets, in the Sumerian language c. 2100–2050 BCE . It contains strong statements of royal power like "I eliminated enmity, violence, and cries for justice." [1] Discovery The first copy of the code, in two fragments found at Nippur , in what is now Iraq, was translated by Samuel Kramer in 1952. These fragments are held at the Istanbul Archaeological Museums . Owing to its partial preservation, only the prologue and five of the laws were discernible. [2] Kramer ...