German archaeologist tracing Anatolian civilizations

On behalf of the German Archaeology Institute, Professor Aa has been carrying out the archaeological excavations in the Boğazkale district of Çorum, which was home to the Hittite capital Hattusa.

Schachner has been following the traces of civilizations in Anatolia for more than a quarter of a century.

After his high school education in Germany, Schachner, who was impressed by the frequent mention of Turkey by one of his teachers, came to Anatolia with his friends in 1986 and visited museums and ruins for three months.

Finishing his military service in Germany, Schachner, who studied Ottoman history, Turkology, Near Eastern languages Akkadian and Assyrian, studied at Hacettepe University in Turkish capital Ankara for a year and then returned to Germany for his master's degree.

Meanwhile, Schachner participated in archaeological excavations in various parts of Anatolia in 1994 with his professors at Hacettepe University and joined the German Archaeology Institute in Istanbul in 2005 after giving archaeology lessons at various universities.

Schachner was appointed by the German Institute as the head of the excavations at the Hattusa Ruins in Boğazkale in 2006 and has been trying to solve the thousands of years-old mystery of ancient civilizations during archaeological excavations in various Anatolia regions for 27 years.

Carrying out his studies with his archaeologist wife, Şenay Schachner, Andreas Schachner was awarded the SAF Research Award (Outstanding Scientific Results) by the "Shanghai Archaeology Forum" of the People's Republic of China Academy of Sciences in 2019 thanks to the experience he had in Anatolia.

Speaking to the state-run Anadolu Agency, Schachner said that he has been working at the Hattusa Ruins...