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Surprising fact: the oldest surviving law code was written at Ur—centuries before Hammurabi.

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Its roots lie in a place.

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Sumer’s river cities—Ur, Uruk, Lagash—linked by canals and trade, strained by floods, rivalries, and Akkad’s collapse.

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In this charged landscape, temple estates and scribal courts organized life.

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Here, Ur-Nammu emerged, unifying cities, rebuilding Ur, and inscribing rules in clay.