Photograph from Prof. Albert T. Clay 



A TABLET CONTAINING THE EARLIEST-KNOWN EAWS : BABYLON (SEE PACE 1/5) 



These laws were written in Sumerian about 4,200 years ago. It is believed that they 

 formed the basis of the Hammurabi Code, issued in 2000 B. C, just as British laws furnished 

 the basis of our own in our early history. This tablet is in the Yale Collection. 



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