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n Ancient Egypt the Pharaohs were the rulers and they put forward the laws. The Pharaohs had forceful laws and very severe punishment for people who didn’t follow them to keep the people in line. These laws were based on the common viewpoint of what was right and what was wrong and if an Egyptian was to break a law it would bring not only disgrace on themself but also disgrace on their family.There are 8 legal books on recordthat have been found from Ancient Egyptian times regarding their actual lawsand hieroglyphic inscriptions and refereces in letters etc. alsoshow that Ancient Egypt operated under some kind of law code…

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