Elohim Kingship Civilization King Law Exist Prior to 100,000 Years Ago. No A.D

Hammurabi (1728 BC–1686 BC) felt he had to write the code to please his gods. In the upper part of the stela, Hammurabi is shown in front of the throne of the sun god Shamash.

The laws numbered from 1 to 282, but numbers 13 and 66-99 are missing are inscribed in Old Babylonian on an eight foot tall stela of black basalt . It was discovered in December 1901 in Susa, Elam, which is now Khuzestan, Iran, where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC. It is currently on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris,France.

The code is often pointed to as the first example of the legal concept that some laws are so basic as to be beyond the ability of even a king to change. By writing the laws on stone they were immutable. This concept lives on in most modern legal systems and has given rise to the term written in stone.