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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33,463,117,894,228],"class_list":["post-87763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraq","tag-iraq","tag-mission","tag-mosul","tag-museum","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"\n