Hammurabi

Hammurabi (1792 BC - 1750 BC) was the Emperor of Babylon, known for giving a law code. He was the sixth king of Amorite dynasty in Babylon which is now modern Iraq. Some historians insist that he was in the 3rd millennium BC, but most agree at the time around 1800 BC. According to a latest estimates, he was born in 1792 BC and died in 1750 BC. He had proclaimed a code of law popularly knons as 'the Code of Hammurabi'.

Wisdom & Quotes

• If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

- the Code of Hammurabi

• If a man has committed robbery and is caught, that man shall be put to death. If the robber is not caught, the man who has been robbed shall formally declare whatever he has lost before a god, and the city and the Mayor in whose territory or district the robbery was committed shall make good to him his lost property.

- ibid

• That the strong may not oppress the weak, to give justice to the orphan and the widow, I have inscribed my precious words on my stele.

-ibid

Upanishads