Helmuth Theodor Bossert

After the World War, Bossert found a job at Ernst Wasmuth Publishing in Berlin, where he worked as lector and author in ethnology of diverse ethnic groups and times.

He was granted a study journey to Turkey by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (Emergency Association of German Science) in 1933.

[2] The main purpose of his journey to Turkey was to take part at the archaeological excavations under the leadership of German Kurt Bittel in Hattusa (formerly Boğazköy, today Boğazkale), the capital of the Hittite Empire (c. 1600 BC–c.

[2] During his stay in Turkey, he was appointed professor of "Linguistics and Art of Ancient Asia Minor" at Istanbul University in April 1934.

After 1946, he discovered the late Hittite ruins in Karatepe in southern Turkey along with the Turkish archaeologists Bahadır Alkım and Halet Çambel.

In 1954, Bossert began to publish the scientific journal Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung ("Yearbook for Asia Minor Research"), which came out for three years.

A late Hittite stone relief at the Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum .
Luwian hieroglyphs at the Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum .