The Code of Hammurabi (or Code of Hammurabi), created by Hammurabi at the end of his reign (approximately 1750 BC) is one of the oldest legislative monuments. Preserved in the form of a cuneiform inscription on a black diorite stele, found by the French archaeological expedition of Jacques de Morgan during excavations in 1901-1902 in Susa (the territory of ancient Mesopotamia), the territory of the modern province of Khuzestan in Iran. Modern publishers divide the corpus into 282 articles (37 articles, many believe, were erased in ancient times, but were partially restored from clay tablets found in various places, in particular in the library of Ashurbanipal).