by haunter on 7/7/2024, 7:58:54 AM
by bitwize on 7/7/2024, 6:59:52 AM
Hammurabi went hard against people who accused others of serious crimes but couldn't build an airtight case -- which is like the opposite of what we do today. Imagine if cops and prosecutors had to serve the sentences of suspects they charged but couldn't convict.
by NooneAtAll3 on 7/7/2024, 8:11:06 AM
I hope I'm not the only one who remembered Ancient Mesopotamia song
Babylonians built roads
They traded grain for gold
They kept themselves united
Under Hammurabi's Code!
by ConcernedCoder on 7/7/2024, 6:22:07 AM
people got executed for EVERYTHING back then... sheesh...
by mseepgood on 7/7/2024, 10:39:55 AM
Did people back then have no sense of structure or desire to group the laws thematically? This text jumps back and forth between topics.
by edweis on 7/7/2024, 2:57:30 PM
There are some articles marked as "Artifact destroyed", does it mean that the original document is lost forever? I see there are missing on another website [0]
by mseepgood on 7/7/2024, 10:27:39 AM
I don't understand §2. If someone is a bad swimmer they're a witch, and if someone is a good swimmer they're innocent? What's the logic behind that?
by DonHopkins on 7/7/2024, 6:43:29 AM
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was first developed under the name King of Sumeria or The Sumer Game by Doug Dyment in 1968 at Digital Equipment Corporation as a computer game for fellow employee Richard Merrill's newly invented FOCAL programming language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)
Ahl, David (November 1978). BASIC Computer Games (2nd ed.). Workman Publishing. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-89480-052-8. (archive)
https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomput...
Hamurabi - (1978) - Apple II - WIN! HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbiqMO0EY4
Long before Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego or The Oregon Trail, there was The Sumerian Game.
https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-vi...
Game Mechanics That Are Older Than You Think
Our mythbusting run that reveals the true pioneers behind physics, first-person shooting, and light-guns (not Half-Life 2, Doom, and Duck Hunt respectively).
City Simulation - Credited to: SimCity (1989) - Beaten by 24 years
https://web.archive.org/web/20160207152548/http://www.1up.co...
§42 is something that is still relevant today, should be, with regardless of housing and such
> If a man rented a field for cultivation but has not produced any grain in the field, he will be convicted of not working the field and will give the owner of the field grain corresponding to his neighbors.