What Was the World's First Written Law

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Four thousand years ago, in the Sumerian city of Ur, a king changed justice forever. The Code of Ur-Nammu — written around 2100 BCE, three centuries before Hammurabi — is the oldest surviving written law in human history. In this video, we uncover how a warlord-turned-king ended blood feuds with silver fines, why his fifty-seven laws were kinder than Hammurabi's "eye for an eye," and how broken clay tablets in a museum still shape the courts we use today.