In the ruins of Karatepe Aslantaş, one of the centers of the Hittite Kingdom, which was founded in the 1000s BC and located within the borders of the Kadirli district of Osmaniye province, in a banquet scene presented to the Hittite King Asativatas in a 3,000 year old relief wall relief, it was staged that the Hittite king ate raw meatballs and lettuce leaves.
In 1947, German archaeologist Theodor BOSSERT and his assistant Halet ÇAMBEL unearthed very important stone artifacts related to the city of a kingdom that lived in the 750s BC belonging to the Hittite period under the ground.
Karatepe Aslantaş, the last Hittite city, is located in the village of Kızyusuflu in the Kadirli district. Karatepe Aslantaş Hittite ruins, located 30 km away from the city center of Osmaniye, have become world famous as the place where the Hittite hieroglyphic writing was deciphered for the first time thanks to the double tablets written in Hittite hieroglyphic writing on one side and Finike writing on the other.