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THE ALPHABET Babylonian literature and science; practically all the existing Babylonian literature was put down in written form in that period, while the thousands of letters on clay tablets which have survived from the same epoch
Fig. 21 1. Pillar on which Hammurabi's Code of Laws (eighteenth century B.C.) is inscribed. 2, Baked clay prism of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (703-681 B.C.), inscribed with account
of his invasion of Palestine and the siege of Jerusalem
show that commerce was thriving to an extent that argues an advanced state of human society. Modern Old Testament scholars were astonished at the beginning of this century, when the famous Code of Hammurabi
