Who developed the world's most ancient law code?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-07T04:31:05

The oldest that we have actual evidence of is the Code of Ur-Nammu, the King of Ur. He reign in area of modern Southern Iraq in about 2000 BCE.

2 partial tablets exist and were discovered in the the museum in Istanbul. They are written in Sumerian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu

The most famous and the largest surviving code of laws is Hammurabi's Code from about the mid to late 1700s BCE.

There are other fragments of codes of laws from a similar era.

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Ancient law in China originated about 1100 BCE but actual evidence only survives from about 500 BCE.