The black stone would be more or less chosen for the purpose because of its size and shape. Ancient techniques were used to carve the message. There was some polishing involved. No matter the size, the stone was moved from Babylon to the capital of Elam later Persia. That is from southern Iraq to northern Iran.
It is quite obvious, it was used for knowing the laws, lol, By Stormy
In fact, the Hammurabi code has rules on the use of money and banking, concepts of efficiency, disapproval of negligent behavior, concept of equity and wage and marginal productivity.
The Romans did not invent columns. They adopted the use of column to support the roofs of temples and for porticoes form the Greeks. They also adopted the three orders (styles) the Greeks used for columns: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. They developed the Composite order which combined elements of two orders. The Egyptians used columns for their temples before the Greeks.
you have to get a styrophome ball then carve it out then use toothpicks to carve it out then you label it with them.
Marble
I am prepared to carve my niche! I'll carve the turkey this year!
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They used the spears
there hands
you tell me