In Mesopotamia, new empires invaded and rulers took power, establishing the Babylonian civilization. One famous Babylonian leader was Hammurabi, who ruled from 1792-1750 BC. Archaeologists discovered a stone monument in 1901 containing Hammurabi's famous code of 300 laws, which established standards for legal issues like property, trade, loans, wages, and witchcraft. While similar in some ways to the laws God later gave Moses, Hammurabi's code focused on establishing order and giving glory to the king, rather than worship of one God.