The Code consists of 282 laws with scaled punishments depending on social status, adjusting 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'. Written in about 1754 BCE by the sixth king of Babylon, Hammurabi, the Code was written on stone stele-slabs-and clay tablets. Hammurabi’s code is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.

It’s similar to the Sumerian king Ur-Nammu of Ur’s code, written from 2100 to 2050 BCE.

One of the most important works of this First Dynasty of Babylon was the compilation in about 1754 BCE of a code of laws, called the Code of Hammurabi, which echoed and improved upon the earlier written laws of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria.