Excerpt from Old Assyrian Laws
Assyrian documents of civil right have been known since the days of Layard and Oppert. They prove beyond doubt the self-evident fact that the Assyrians too had developed and observed certain legal practises and procedures. But there has been nothing to indicate the existence of written Assyrian laws. Considering the general inferiority of the civilization of Assyria to Babylonian culture and the dependence of the former upon the latter, it did not even seem probable that the Assyrians had possessed a legislation of their own. This theory has now suddenly proved erroneous thanks to the discoveries made by German scholars in Qal'at Shergat, i. e. the ruins of Assur, the oldest capital of the Assyrian empire.
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