§42 is something that is still relevant today, should be, with
regardless of housing and such<p>> If a man rented a field for cultivation but has not produced any grain in the field, he will be convicted of not working the field and will give the owner of the field grain corresponding to his neighbors.
Hammurabi went hard against people who accused others of serious crimes but couldn't build an airtight case -- which is like the opposite of what we do today. Imagine if cops and prosecutors had to serve the sentences of suspects they charged but couldn't convict.
I hope I'm not the only one who remembered Ancient Mesopotamia song<p>Babylonians built roads<p>They traded grain for gold<p>They kept themselves united<p>Under Hammurabi's Code!<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdblRch6m3g" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdblRch6m3g</a>
There are some articles marked as "Artifact destroyed", does it mean that the original document is lost forever? I see there are missing on another website [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp" rel="nofollow">https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp</a>
I don't understand §2. If someone is a bad swimmer they're a witch, and if someone is a good swimmer they're innocent? What's the logic behind that?
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was first developed under the name King of Sumeria or The Sumer Game by Doug Dyment in 1968 at Digital Equipment Corporation as a computer game for fellow employee Richard Merrill's newly invented FOCAL programming language.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)</a><p>Ahl, David (November 1978). BASIC Computer Games (2nd ed.). Workman Publishing. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-89480-052-8. (archive)<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition_1978_Creative_Computing/page/n91/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomput...</a><p>Hamurabi - (1978) - Apple II - WIN! HD<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbiqMO0EY4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbiqMO0EY4</a><p>Long before Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego or The Oregon Trail, there was The Sumerian Game.<p><a href="https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-video-game-youve-never-heard/" rel="nofollow">https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-vi...</a><p>Game Mechanics That Are Older Than You Think<p>Our mythbusting run that reveals the true pioneers behind physics, first-person shooting, and light-guns (not Half-Life 2, Doom, and Duck Hunt respectively).<p>City Simulation - Credited to: SimCity (1989) - Beaten by 24 years<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160207152548/http://www.1up.com/features/game-mechanics-older" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20160207152548/http://www.1up.co...</a>