Abstract
Strange, to say, Hammurabi's Code of Laws, that remarkable addition to our knowledge of the rights of man when the world, in the sense of the people who inhabit it, was young, was not referred to by the Assyriologists who attended the Orientalist Congress at Hamburg. In all probability they had not had time to study it in all its bearings, and had nothing very new to say about it, for Father Scheil, in his hastily-published translation of the inscription, had practically covered all the ground,and new points worth writing a paper about had to be looked for, not only in the code itself, but in the many contract-tablets which illustrate it. Indeed, the work of illustrating this new edition to our knowledge of the legal system of the Babylonians and Assyrians is only now being done, requiring, as it does, scholars specially gifted with a talent for that branch of the work.