Cuneiform law
Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script, that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites. The Code of Hammurabi is the most well-known of the cuneiform laws, but there were a number of precursor laws.
Thomas Hyde
In his chief work, "Historia religionis veterum Persarum" (1700) [The History of the religion of ancient Persia], he made the first attempt to correct from Oriental sources the errors of the Greek and Roman historians who had described the religion of the ancient Persians. He identified Zoroaster as a religious reformer. In this book, Hyde also coined the word "cuneiform".
His other writings and translations comprise "Tabulae longitudinum et latitudinum stellarum fixarum ex observatione principis Ulugh Beighi" (1665) [Tables of the longitudes and latitudes of the fixed stars from the main observatory of Ulugh Beg], to which his notes have given additional value; "Quatuor evangelia et acta apostolorum lingua Malaica, characteribus Europaeis "(1677) [The four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles in the Malay language, [written with] European characters]; "Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus serum sive sinensium "(1688) [Letter on the measures and weights of the northern Chinese or the southern Chinese], appended to Edward Bernard's "De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis" [On ancient measures and weights]; Abraham Peritsol's "Itinera mundi" (1691) [World journeys]; and "De ludis orientalibus libri II" (1694) [On oriental games, book II] in which he described various Chinese games including Coan ki and where he gave also the first full Latin description of weiqi.