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Code of Ur-Nammu

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The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known surviving law code, from Mesopotamia, written on tablets in the Sumerian language. It includes declarations of its ruler's efforts to eliminate enmity and violence and to establish justice within the realm.

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