US mission discovers the doorstep of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III with a preserved cuneiform inscription

The University of Pennsylvania museum mission operating in the archaeological city of Nimrud near Mosul discovered the doorstep of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III, with a well-preserved cuneiform inscription.

These excavations came in the process of expanding the area excavated by Austin Henry Layard in the mid-nineteenth century, which is the palace of the Asyrian king Adad-nirari III (811-783 BC).

The ancient city of Nimrud, located near Mosul, is the jewel of the Assyrian civilization, as it is a treasure of the most important archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century, and the most famous antiquities in a country known as the cradle of civilizations.