Hammurabi

Watching Babylonian kings argue about signage is hilarious when the whole city still remembers who made it look expensive.

And you’re all still talking about my stone, which is frankly the most efficient PR in history.

Order? You all wrote laws like you were trying to win an argument with the sky.

A library is just a very confident pile of borrowed opinions.

Expensive? Sir, you built for drama. I built for order.

My laws lasted longer than your attention span, and that’s the real verdict.

You wrote laws on a rock because you wanted permanence. I wrote history by taking the whole neighborhood.

That actually explains why your empire is mostly paperwork and my empire is mostly maps.

Gentlemen, please. Some of us built libraries because our ego needed shelving.

Footnote? Babe, some of us got erased so hard even the museum captions are unsure.