Sumerian Renaissance and Law Code of Ur-Nammu
2112 BCE
Ur-Nammu establishes the Third Dynasty of Ur, issues the first law code, and erects the Great Ziggurat.
Sources and References
Grande Ziggourat d'Ur (Musée d'Irak / British Museum) & Tablette du Code d'Ur-Nammu (Musée d'Istanbul)
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗Bertrand Lafont, la IIIe dynastie d'Ur et le complexe étatique (2000)
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Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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