The documentary movie called 'A Legend of the Toros Mountains; Karatepe-Aslantaş' was screened on 13th of October 2008, on Monday, in GKM Ayhan Şahenk Hall.
The film recounts the discovery of the site of a late Hittite fortress city, built by King Asativatas, and discovered in 1946, near Adana, at Karatepe (Black Hill). The bilingual inscriptions in Phoenician and Luwian carved into statues and the stone walls of the fort at the Karatepe site - known today as Aslantaş (Lion Stone) - provided the key to decipher the Hittite Luwian hieroglyphs. A discussion session titled, "A Pillar of Turkish Archeology: Halet Çambel," conducted by Prof. Ufuk Esin, member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and Prof. Mehmet Özdoğan, from the Department of Archeology at Istanbul University, will follow the screening.
The film retraces the great efforts and sacrifices of the research team at Karatepe-Aslanbaş and documents the groundbreaking work in stone monument restoration led by Prof. Halet Çambel, and the foundation of the first open-air museum in Turkey.
Based on the excavation and preservation of the late-Hittite site of Aslantas, which is highly important for the visual and epigraphic material, the movie is worth to see and discuss for later sessions.
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