Societies
19 min
When the King Wrote Down the Rules
A king carved his laws in stone. The stone carved him back.
Around 1750 BCE, a Babylonian king carved 282 laws onto a stone pillar and stood it where people could come and see it. The laws were mostly borrowed from older codes. But fixing them in public, permanent stone quietly created something new: the idea that the law stands above the man who made it.
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