An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

Urukagina was a Sumerian King of Girsu and Lagash, sometime during the 24th Century BCE. He is best known for promulgating a set of reform decrees in which the word “liberty” (amagi) appears for the first time.

Hammurabi was King of Babylon 1792-1750 BCE. He compiled a collection of laws and decrees, known as the Code of Hammurabi, the most comprehensive ancient legal code in existence.

Ur-Nammu was the King of the Neo-Sumerian Empire based in Ur. He died in 2094 BCE, after consolidating Ur’s control of most of Sumeria, including Uruk and Lagash. He organized a legal code which was a forerunner and prototype for Hammurabi’s and which, though only fragmentary, is the oldest known law code.