Was the code of Hammurabi written in cuneiform?
Hammurabi spoke Akkadian and wrote in the emerging written text of cuneiform. Cuneiform started as a pictograph, a symbolic way to record trades and stories. Then over a few thousand years, it developed into straight marks and wedge shapes that represent phonetic sounds. The latter being a much quicker way to write, as the symbols for objects run into the thousands and sounds can be reduced to a few hundred strokes.
