In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jequier, a member of an expeditionheaded by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code ofHammurabi in what is now Khuzestan, Iran (ancient Susa, Elam),where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite kingShutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.

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