Hammurabi's code was written by scribes of Hammurabi. Hammurabi was an famous king of the Mesopotamians. He was the one who prepared and contributed a legal code to the Mesopotamian people. It is generally believed that his reign lasted 8 years, from 1742 BC to 1750 BC. In 1901, French archaeologists found a 2 meter long black monument in the Iranian city of Susa. Its age and content surprised the researcher.

Many rules were engraved in apple-shaped letters. There were 282 laws, which gave Severe Punishments to the guilty. It set out strict rules - breaking someone's eye would be punished by breaking the eye of accuse, killing the thief on the spot itself, and cutting off a doctor's hand if the patient dies during treatment.

Eye for an eye, hand for hand, tooth for tooth, murder for murder, that was the punishment then. Babylonia was a city in southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The capital was Babylon, a small city. Hammurabi was the sixth king of the first Babylonian dynasty. That ancient king was known as the greatest legislator of the ancient world.

No very accurate information is available about the life span of Hammurabi. The number of crimes during his reign was very low due to the severe punishments.