UGUR YANAR

Academic scientist who knows Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite and Urartian.

Ancient languages and cultures expert, archaeologist, art director, film and series writer and dramaturge.

The scientist who broke the 5000-year silence of dead languages.

He was born in Yozgat center as the eldest child of a family from Erzurum in Turkey. He lived in İkizpınar Village of Şenkaya district of Erzurum until he started his basic education in Yozgat center.

He started his basic education at Sakarya Primary School in Yozgat center and completed his education at Fatih Sultan Mehmet High School in Keçiören, Ankara. He received his bachelor's degree in ancient languages at Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Ancient Languages and Cultures, Department of Hittitology. He learned cuneiform languages from esteemed Hittitologist and Sumerologist professors. He crowned his successful undergraduate education by being included in the honor roll of Ankara University. During his undergraduate education, he started to continue his archaeology and philology studies along with his education in archaeological excavations. During this period, he took part in the excavations at Şapinuva. He completed his undergraduate education as the first in his department with his thesis on the laws of Near Asia. He also received pedagogical formation training at Gazi University. As a successful student, he was awarded a certificate.

He started his graduate studies at Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences. As one of the few students, he took special courses on archaeology and cuneiform writing from his professors. During his graduate studies, he prepared seminars on «Some weight and length measurements» and «Some thoughts on the arrival of the Hittites in Anatolia». He became a specialist in Ancient Languages and Cultures with his master's thesis titled «Information on Ancient Hittite Period Settlements in the Light of Boğazköy Cuneiform Document». Due to his professional success, he was invited to the Limyra excavations by Jürgen Borchhardt, Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Wien, Austria. He presented the ceramics dating the city of Limyra to the Middle Bronze Age with the title «Grabungs-und Sauberungsarbeiten im Bereich Der Weststadt Von Limyra» at the International Symposium on Archaeology and Excavation Results, and carried the history of the city back even further. In the light of his archaeological studies and philological documents, he determined that the ancient city of Limyra was the city of «Zumari» in the Hittite period.

He published his important thoughts on the status and taxation of tin in the Bronze Age in «Thoughts on Tin and Taxes in Bronze Age Anatolia» at the Fourth International Turkish Geological Symposium.

Due to the loss of job opportunities both during his military service and after completing his military service, he interrupted his studies for a while.

He resumed his studies as a lecturer at Karabük University Safranbolu Fethi Toker Faculty of Fine Arts. He started his doctorate in Architecture at Karabük University Institute of Science and Technology. While working as a lecturer in the department of architecture and industrial products at Karabük University, he published monthly articles on archaeological values in Safranbolu and Karabük in the magazine Lokum Life. At the same time, he wrote columns about Safranbolu Culture in the Museum City Safranbolu newspaper. His articles on Safranbolu Tourism were also published in the publications of Safranbolu Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In this city, which is a mosaic of beliefs, an article on St. Stilyan is waiting to be published.

He continues to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of Safranbolu Culture and Tourism Foundation.

He was a member of the scientific committee of the 1st International Symposium on Industrial Fire Safety (ISIFS) (2022).

He was a member of the Scientific Committee of Innovative Healthcare Education Through Virtual Realty 2023.

He taught architecture and archaeology as a lecturer in the elective courses program at Hacettepe University, Beytepe and Faculty of Medicine.

He announced his discovery, which changed the archaeology literature for 1000 years, to the whole world at the 3rd Kültepe International Meeting with the title «A Stele from Avanos-Akarca Dating to the Middle Bronze Age» on behalf of Kültepe Turkey, Adana Çukurova University.

He studied Ukrainian language and history, Russian language and literature at K.D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University in Odessa, Ukraine. Odessa I. Mechnykov National University in Odessa, and then began his doctoral studies on Hittite architecture at the Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, Faculty of History and Philosophy of Ukraine.

He wrote the starting dates of some professional sports clubs in the magazine Superligyolu.

He published his work «A Stele from Avanos-Akarca, Anatolia belonging to the Ancient Syrian Period» among the publications of Mersin University Cilicia Archaeology Research Center and made changes in the archaeology literature that he had previously announced.

Записки Історичного Факультету «Autobiography of Hattushili lll Based on Materials of Cuneiform Text From Boğazköi (KBo lll, 6)» by Hatttushili For the printed text, he worked on the definition.

He participated in the Safranbolu Village project as a PhD participant. He worked in the archaeology section of the project, which was completed under the direction of Aysun Özköse. «Local Architecture of Safranbolu Villages» 2022

In addition to his academic career, he is an art director, script writer, dramaturg and script doctor.

He lives in Ukraine with his wife Marianna Yanar and their two children.