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Austen Henry Layard

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In Our Time

In Our Time · Mar 12, 2026

The Code of Hammurabi

“Victorian-era explorer who conducted early excavations in Mesopotamia with British funding”

Code of Hammurabi—ancient Babylonian legal system and its structureAncient Mesopotamian law and judicial practiceSocial stratification in ancient Babylon—awilu, mushkanu, and slave classes
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