In America today, we live under laws that are rooted in ancient traditions. It's rather eye-opening to trace some of our most basic rights to laws of civilizations that existed 2000 to 4000 years ago!
Well we follow the laws of nature and science. Basically our laws came from the egyptians and ancient civilization. The fact that we follow these laws today is eye-opening but its not surprising, due to the fact that long before us they followed laws of nature in which we have taken over, and bent in a way to suit us.