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Explore the transformation of insurance from Babylonian contracts to modern policies, highlighting key developments like fire and life insurance.

Sometime around 1780-70 B.C., the Babylonian King Hammurabi promulgated the now famous Code of Hammurabi, covering both civil and criminal law. The code is said to have informed both Jewish and ...

From Judge James Peterson's decision Friday in Ervins v. Sun Prairie Area School Dist. (W.D. Wis.): February 1 was the first day of Black History Month, so Black history was part of the curriculum at ...

Israeli archaeologists say they have found two 3,700-year-old clay tablets that appear to contain legal pronouncements similar to the Code of Hammurabi and the biblical "tooth for a tooth" rule. The ...

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He knows that the Code of Hammurabi predates Moses by roughly 400 years. It’s likely that he knows that an even older code of law, The Code of Ur-Nammu (Sumerian), predates Moses by roughly 700 years.

BABYLON, Iraq -- This 4,300-year-old town -- now mainly an archaeological ruin and two important museums -- knows political and military upheaval well. Dynasties have risen and have fallen here since ...

In response to a glut of recent controversies surrounding the payment of college football athletes for various services rendered, including autograph signings by Texas A&M star Johnny Manziel that ...