
Episode #47
[47] The Code of Hammurabi
<p>On Short and Interesting we read to you strange and curious things. BEHOLD! The gods have invested in me power and authority. I have erected a massive stone of black basalt in front of my palace, and on it I have carved the immutable laws of my domain. Heed these laws or perish in agony. For the most part these are pretty fair. If you kill someone’s son, their family can come here to the palace and tell me about it, and I’ll send my guards out to kill THEIR son. You’re not going to find a fair...






