The Hammurabi is a well-preserved document consisting of the Babylonian law of Ancient Mesopotamia. It dates back to 1754 BC, and it is one of the oldest writings in the world that has been deciphered by researchers.
The pictographic sentence that describes a phrase often associated with Hammurabi is "If a man shall destroy the eye of another man, he shall destroy that man's eye". This is also one of the most famous phrases and the best-known laws of the Hammurabi code.
