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The Earliest Known Law Code

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 25, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 15.

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The Earliest Known Law Code

LAWS believed to have been written about 2,500 years before Christ, and to have remained buried in the sands of Babylonia for more than 4,000 years, are now in the process of being deciphered at Yale University. The tablet containing them is thought, at this point in the work of deciphering it, to be the very earliest law code in existence, antedating even that of Hammurabi. The tablet is written in the Sumerian language, which was the language of southern Babylonia prior to its conquest by the Semites or Akkadians in the time of Hammurabi.