Code of Ur-Nammu

Earliest surviving law code, c. 2100 BCE

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From ancient Sumer to modern Israel—how humans have tried to quantify the unquantifiable.

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#3152: When Law Didn't Need God

Did the first secular law code permit dismembering debtors? Tracing law's 4,000-year shift from divine command to human reason.

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