In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jequier, amember of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found thestele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khuzestan,Iran (ancient Susa, Elam), where it had been taken as plunder bythe Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.

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