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Archaeologists excavating a part of the ancient town of Butrinti found what they said may be a
2,000-year-old statue of the Roman goddess Minerva.
http://www.geocities.com/albaland/statueminerva.html
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Report of the Assessment Mission to the World Heritage Site of Butrinti, Albania
Following reports that the World Heritage site of Butrinti was damaged during the civil unrest in
Albania in early 1997, a joint UNESCO-ICOMOS-Butrint Foundation assessment mission went to the site
from 20 to 24 October 1997.
http://whc.unesco.org/archive/butrin97.htm
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Relocating the Caves of Luigi Cardini
In June 2000, a team of archaeologists from the Institute of World Archaeology and the Albanian
Institute of Archaeology began a field survey in southern Albania, with the aim of re-locating a
number of prehistoric caves and surface sites that were first explored in the 1930s by Luigi
Cardini.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~capra/3/cardini.html
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Regional Archaeological Research in Albania: Apollonia and Its Hinterland
In May-June of 1998, a team of Albanian and American archaeologists gathered to inaugurate a joint
project of regional archaeological study in the vicinity of the ancient city of Apollonia (founded
in 588 B.C.), located near the modern-day city of Fier, just above the village of Pojani.
http://www.frosina.org/infobits/appoloniaarchaeology.shtml
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Recent rescue excavations in Albania
At the end of 1999 a new Rescue Archaeology Unit was set up in Albania, funded by the Packard
Humanities Institute. Its activity during 2000 has been intense, and focused on four main projects,
always in co-operation with the Institute of Archaeology of Tirana.
http://intarch.ac.uk/antiquity/amore.html
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The Question of Illyrian-Albanian Continuity...
Article from the Kosova Crisis Center, the question of the ethnic and cultural continuity between
the early Illyrians and the mediaeval Albanians, besides being one of the most attractive issues of
Balkan history, has also acquired a political dimension in recent decades.
http://www.alb-net.com/illyrians.htm
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Konispol Cave
A preliminary report on excavations and related studies, 1992-1994. From Iliria.
http://www.uta.edu/anthropology/petruso/iliria.1.html
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The Economic Policy of the Governing Party: 1992 to 1996
political comintary on the cultural and archaeological polocies of the government.
http://www.albania.mcmail.com/chap9.html
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Butrint: Late Antiquity in Southern Albania
The classical and Byzantine city of Butrint occupies the top and slopes of a low hill which
projects into the Vivari channel and separates the inland lake Butrint from the Adriatic to the
east.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/ap/research/butrint.html
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Archaeology of Albania: Recent Research in the Stone Age.
In 1991 a collaborative excavation project was proposed to the Instituti Arkeologjik in Tiranë by
the University of Texas at Arlington. The co-directors of the project, Dr. Muzafer Korkuti and Dr.
Karl Petruso, along with a staff of archaeologists and other specialists from several countries,
have been investigating an extraordinary cave on the Saraqint ridge northwest of the town of
Konispol
http://www.frosina.org/infobits/albanianarc.shtml
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Archaeology in Albania After Kosovo
An unlikely outcome of the Kosovo crisis was a new interest in Albanian archaeology.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1373/3_50/60081459/p1/article.jhtml
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Archaeology
Article on the history and archaeology of Albania from the Sustainable Economic Development Agency.
http://www.seda.org.al/ACH/arch.htm
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Archaeologists Head to Albania for Cultural Rescue Mission
From Scienceblog, he chaos that was once Albania could become tomorrow's hotspot for development.
Before that commercialization begins, University of Cincinnati archaeologists want to identify
ancient sites that should be studied or preserved.
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2001/D/200114684.html
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Albania
The survey work in Albania is part of a larger international and multi-institutional project
centred on the Bronze Age settlement and Antique to Ottoman city of Butrint, in the extreme
southwest of Albania only a few kilometres from the Greek border and within sight of Kerkyra
(Corfu). Includes preliminary reports.
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/archaeology/amarkp/ALBANIA/ALBANIA.HTM
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Remnants Of Ancient Synagogue In Albania Revealed
From ScienceDaily, remnants from a synagogue dating from the 5th or 6th century, C.E., have been
revealed in the coastal city of Saranda, opposite the Greek island of Corfu.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031009064923.htm
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Ancient Chess History Unearthed
From the BBC, a team of British archaeologists have found evidence that Europeans were playing
chess as early as the sixth century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2155916.stm
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Archaeology of Albania
Art and archaeology of ancient Albania (Illyria).
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6820/art.html
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Archaeology in Albania
Welcome to Albania introduces archaeology in Albania and gives illustrated descriptions of
important Illyrian and Roman sites and monuments including Apollonia. History of the kingdom of
Illyria.
http://www.geocities.com/albaland/archaeology/
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