Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum is an open-air museum in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. Karatepe is the location while Aslantaş refers to the lion figure on stone sculptures. The site is situated inside a national park with the same name.
Fortress wall in the open-air museum.
Hittite stone relief in the open-air museum.
Phoenician alphabet at North Gate.
Hieroglyphic Luwian at South Gate.
Helmuth Theodor Bossert
Videos
Helmuth Theodor Bossert was a German and Turkish art historian, philologist and archaeologist. He is best known for his excavations of the Hittite fortress city at Karatepe, Turkey, and the discovery of bilingual inscriptions, which enabled the translation of Hittite hieroglyphs.
