War & Order

<p><strong>The ancient Babylonian King Hammurabi is only remembered for one reason today. But how much do we really know about this once mighty man?</strong></p><p><strong>Being particularly engaging for boys this book relates the military might of Hammurabi before portraying a fictional scenario which may have prompted him to develop his famous Code - the first law in the world to introduce the presumption of innocence. </strong></p><p><strong>As the Akkadian language is dead this book is instead presented in another ancient and endangered language spoken within a similar geographic region.</strong></p><p><strong># 654 in the <em>Bilingual Legends </em>series: This book is in both English and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.</strong></p>