Editorial Sanford Solny, center, appears in Kings County Criminal Court, where he pleaded not guilty to new charges related to deed theft, in downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
Editorial Sanford Solny, center, appears in Kings County Criminal Court, where he pleaded not guilty to new charges related to deed theft, in downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialStone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina, from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, around 870 BCE. On the top are 13 symbols of the gods designed to protect the legal document. Both the king, wearing the typical Babylonian royal hat and the priest whose hand is...