help of the Phoenician alphabet after their discovery of Karatepe Bilingual there. Çambel was also active in promoting the preservation of Turkey's cultural heritage. In the 1950s, she resisted the government's attempt to move the artifacts from Karatepe to a museum. The government eventually agreed, and in 1960 established an outdoor museum, the Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum, where her husband Nail Çakırhan designed some buildings. She also fought efforts to dam the Ceyhan River, which would have flooded many archaeological sites. She was able to have the proposed water level reduced sufficiently to save the sites. Çambel as elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1979. In 2004, she received the Prince Claus Award in the Netherlands. The jury report cited her "for conducting rescue excavations of endangered heritage sites, introducing stone restoration and ensuring proper conservation of significant cultural heritage in Turkey," for founding a chair of Prehistoric archaeology at Istanbul University, and "for her dedicated scholarship and for her unique role in expanding the possibilities for interaction between people and their cultural heritage." References External links 1916 births 2014 deaths Alumni of Arnavutköy American High School for Girls Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Fencers from Berlin Hittitologists Istanbul University alumni Academic staff of Istanbul University Olympic fencers of Turkey Academic staff of Saarland University Turkish archaeologists Turkish female foil fencers Turkish female martial artists University of Paris alumni Turkish women archaeologists Ottoman expatriates in Germany Members of the American Philosophical Society