How four lines carved in stone 3,800 years ago became humanity’s first public antivirus against psychopathy
In the Louvre, Room 307, stands a black diabase finger seven-and-a-half feet tall. At the top, Hammurabi, king of Babylon, receives the insignia of authority from the sun-god Shamash. Below them, in immaculate Old Babylonian cuneiform, runs the longest surviving political inscription from the ancient Near East.
