Hammurabi's Code

Woot, it was a hilarious History-rific day...And all thanks to the awesomeness of Hammurabi's Code, the law code that the sixth Amorite king of Babylon (Hammurabi, 1728-1686 B.C.) devised.

I know it's wrong for us to laugh at such an ancient piece of writing, but we just couldn't help it.  IT IS JUST HILARIOUS.  "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".  That was their saying.  Now that I've read some of the laws, that just totally makes sense.

"If a man has stolen a child, he shall be put to death."
"If a seignior commited robery and has been caught, he shall be put to death."
"If a physician performs a major operation of a seignior with a bronze lancent and has caused the seignior's death, they shall cut off his hand."  (To this one, I wondered, what if he performed the opinion with a SILVER or COPPER lancet?  Huh? 0_0)
ETC.

Everyone in my class laughed to this one.  "If a wife was not careful, but was a gadabout (blah blah blah), thus neglecting her house and humiliating her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water."  My question is:  What if she knew how to swim?  0_0

This one was my favourite.  "If he has knocked out the tooth of a seignior of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth."  In honour of it, I quickly drew a comic strip on MS Paint.  This doesn't count as a weekly comic though.  It sucks too much.

You should research Hammurabi's Code if you're bored.  Seriously, you'll get a good laugh out of it, if not anything else.

Bye for now!

-Vociferously yours, Vicky.