Code of Hammurabi

If you’re at all morbid then you probably already know that this year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, but did you alsoknow that 2016 is the 3,770th anniversary (approximately)of the Codes of Hammurabi? No? Me neither until I looked it up on Wikipedia.

‘What’s that all about then?’I hear you cry! Well, it’s one of the first forms of law, this being aset of 282 rather bloodyedicts from the ancient Near East. Most of the penalties involve death, mutilation or money – accordin...