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The first book in the world was code of hammurabi. 190 1 1 In February, an archaeological team composed of French and Iranians excavated the ruins of an ancient city named Susa in southwest Iran. One day, they found a black basalt, and a few days later, they found two more. They put three pieces together, which happened to be an oval cylindrical stone tablet. This stone tablet is 2.25m high, with a circumference of1.9m at the bottom and1.65m at the top. In the exquisite relief in the first half of the stone tablet, Chamakh, the sun god worshipped by the Babylonians, sits on the throne, and Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian kingdom, stands in front of it. Chamakh gave Hammurabi the symbol of imperial power. The lower part of the stone tablet is engraved with the code formulated by Hammurabi, which is written in cuneiform. A few words have been polished.

This stone tablet is the famous code of hammurabi and the earliest systematic code in the world. It brought us to the ancient Babylonian society nearly 4000 years ago. In order to consolidate the rule of slave owners, the code also stipulates some stricter provisions: all those who evade military service shall be put to death; Destroy the bridge water conservancy, hell to pay, until the death; Anyone who helps a slave escape or hides an escaped slave shall be sentenced to death; If people who break the law conspire in the hotel, if the shopkeeper doesn't arrest these people, the wine seller will also be executed. Free men in Babylonian society also included small farmers who rented land. They were also seriously exploited by slave owners, who paid one-third or even one-half of the harvest to the slave owners who rented the land every year. The code also stipulates that debt slaves can be free after three years of labor. But this is only a small favor for free people. Slave owners forced some freemen who could not pay their debts to become debt slaves, and in turn used this rule to win them over.

This rare treasure is still preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. According to the clay tablet of code of hammurabi discovered later, seven columns of characters on the stained cylinder can be corrected. Therefore, Shizhu Dian is still the oldest and most complete code in the world.