He was the most powerful king in Babylonia, leaving a memory of himself in the laws written on a pillar of black stone.

This powerful king was Hammurabi himself. In the 18th century BC, the Babylonian kingdom was the most powerful in Mesopotamia. The Babylonian king himself called himself “the storm of the four sides of the world.” One of his main acts was the introduction of the very first written code of laws, which was named – “Code of Hammurabi”. The king approached the creation of this lawyer very seriously, even warned the following rulers that if they destroy these laws, then a terrible punishment awaits them.