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Year names print ‘destroyed X’ formulae as completed urban-harm headings

Dated 1 January 1759: Year names print ‘destroyed X’ formulae as completed urban-harm headings. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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Formulae are claims. Medium confidence on unique site-by-site archaeology. Hammurabi did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Hammurabi Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Hammurabi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Old Babylonian chronology is reconstructed (Middle Chronology often used).

Why it matters

Formulae are claims.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Hammurabi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeCDLI / MPIWG · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.ARCHIBAB — Old Babylonian letters and year namesARCHIBAB · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Official page: https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://www.archibab.fr/ (opens in a new tab).

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorHammurabi
  2. contributed toFactYear names print ‘destroyed X’ formulae as completed urban-harm headings
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Year names print ‘destroyed X’ formulae as completed urban-harm headings. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-city-destruction-names

https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-city-destruction-names

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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