Why does code of hammurabi of Babylon exist in Britain and America? Urgent! ~
King Su Truck of Elam invaded Babylonia around 1 150 BC and brought the codex tablet back to Susa as a trophy. Probably, in order to carve his achievements on the stone tablet, he had a part of the original text worn away. But for some reason (probably because he died soon), it was impossible to reprint. The incomplete inscriptions were partly restored according to the fragments of the codex unearthed in Susa, and partly supplemented by clay tablets found in Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria, and other urban sites in the two river basins. The manuscript stone tablet is hard in stone and exquisite in calligraphy, which belongs to the typical official document of the first dynasty of Babylon. 190 1 1 In February, an archaeological team composed of French and Iranians excavated the ruins of an ancient city named Susa in southwest Iran. One day, they found a black basalt, and a few days later, they found two more. They put three pieces together, which happened to be an oval cylindrical stone tablet. This stone tablet is the famous "code of hammurabi", which is now in the Louvre Museum.