41. Introduction In 1993 Lord Rothschild and Lord Sainsbury set up the Butrint Foundation to assist the albanian authorities with the conservation and archaeology of the site. http://www.butrintfound.dial.pipex.com/introductionframe.html

Introduction Butrint is a special archaeological site - a microcosm of 3000 years of Mediterranean history from the age of the archaic Greeks until the Venetians. The walled city of Butrint covers an area of approximately 16 hectares. However, at times in its history the city has extended over a greater area, encompassing a large expanse of land on the opposite side of the Vivari channel. There are two principal parts to the site: the acropolis and the lower city. The acropolis is a long, saddle-backed hill rising up to 42m above sea level at its east end, its steep sides accentuated by a circuit of walls, which separate it from the natural and artificial terraces gathered around the flanks of the hill. The lower city occupies the lower-lying contours of the hill reaching down to the edge of the Vivari channel. The most obvious monument outside the city walls, on the opposite side of the channel, is the triangular fortress, which by 1805, when Colonel Martin Leake visited Butrint, was the nucleus of the latest settlement. Beyond the fortress to the east lie substantial remains of later Republican to Byzantine date. Excavation of the Butrint site was undertaken between the wars by the Italian mission led by C Luigi Ugolini. After the Second World War, his work was carried forward by the Albanian archaeological service. After the collapse of the Communist regime in 1990 conservation and archaeological work came to an end for lack of resources. In 1993 Lord Rothschild and Lord Sainsbury set up the Butrint Foundation to assist the Albanian authorities with the conservation and archaeology of the site. In 1994 the Butrint Foundation reached a five-year agreement with the Albanian

42. Albanian Archaeological Wonder Makes Comeback albanian Archaeological Wonder Makes Comeback. (Economist 16/08/01; archaeology - 14/01/01; The Butrint Foundation ). “I saw before http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/010827-JEFF-001.htm

Society Feedback Email this page Print this page Albanian Archaeological Wonder Makes Comeback (Economist - 16/08/01; Archaeology - 14/01/01; The Butrint Foundation “I saw before me Troy in miniature” exclaimed Aeneas, according to Virgil, upon first entering the ancient city of Butrint. Located in present-day Albania, this archaeological treasure has idled as an obscure outpost for much of the past millennium. But the site, once called “the least known, least frequented and least spoilt” of all great classical sites in the Mediterranean by an eminent British scholar of Byzantium, now finds itself in the midst of re-discovery. Archaeologist Richard Hodges says Butrint “owes everything to Mussolini.” In 1924, il Duce, wishing to pose as the new founder of Rome, called on Count Luigi Maria Ugolini, a young fascist pre-historian, to retrace the footsteps of Virgil's hero. Ugolini excavated on an impressive scale, revealing many of the area’s wonders, before succumbing to malaria at age 41. During the authoritarian regime of Enver Hoxha, the site remained off-limits to most Albanians, and work slowed considerably. But when Albania re-opened its borders in the 1990s, excavation resumed under the auspices of the Butrint Foundation, set up in 1993 by Lord Rothschild, a British banker, and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, a supermarket magnate. The foundation is directed by Sir Patrick Fairweather, a former British ambassador to Albania and to Italy; it is heavily financed by David Packard, heir to the Hewlett-Packard fortune.

43. 2000 Reconnaissance Project In Butrint, Albania - Elizabeth Greene The Center also houses a newly established rescue archaeology unit that works with the albanian Institute of archaeology to protect and record the nation s http://www.princeton.edu/~esgreene/albania2000/

2000 Reconnaissance Project in Butrint, Albania Elizabeth Greene Department of Classics , Princeton University and Research Associate, Institute of Nautical Archaeology Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls Of water, sheets of summer glass The long divine Peneian pass, The vast Akrokeraunian walls... Tennyson, To E.L., On his travels in Greece FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS of Edward Lear, who painted the scenic region around Butrint in 1857, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology conducted a brief reconnaissance project there in June 2000 (Fig. 1: Edward Lear watercolor of Butrint dated 7 March 1857). The project, which was included in the protocol for the Anglo-Albanian excavations of the Late Antique and Byzantine phases at Butrint, was designed with three primary goals: to support the Byzantine Butrint project by investigating underwater areas of archaeological interest to the team; to investigate reported shipwreck sites and artifact scatters in the coastal region from Dema Wall to Cuka e Aitoit; and to determine the logistics for future underwater survey efforts in this area (Fig. 2 left: Map of Southern Albania from the Dema Wall to Cuka e Aitoit, the parameters of the 2000 Reconaissance Project).

44. Economist.com | Mediterranean Archaeology to teach young albanians the pragmatic, handson traditions of British archaeology. And it is already visited daily by busloads of albanian schoolchildren, who http://www.economist.co.uk/books/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=739297

45. Ancient Synagogue Excavated In Albania First discovered by albanian archaeologists twenty years ago, the site was only recently investigated by the archaeology Institute of the albanian Academy of http://www.isjm.org/news/article11.htm

Ancient Synagogue Excavated in Albania Archaeology Magazine (January/ February 2004) reports the excavation of a late antique synagogue in Saranda, Albania, a coastal town located across from the Greek island of Corfu. First discovered by Albanian archaeologists twenty years ago, the site was only recently investigated by the Archaeology Institute of the Albanian Academy of Sciences, together with archaeologists from the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology. Jewish imagery is depicted on the mosaic floor of the excavated structures and clearly identified it as an early synagogue, one of a growing number now known from continental Europe. Other ancient synagogues have been excavated in recent years in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Stobi (Macedonia) and Bova Marina (Italy). For full story see: "Albanian Synagogue Surfaces" by Jennifer Pinkowski in Archaeology Magazine, 57:1 Back to home page Back to list of news articles International Survey of Jewish Monuments http://www.isjm.org/news/article11.html

46. Greek011299 Davis, the Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek archaeology at UC, is codirector of the UC-albanian archaeological team which traveled to the Apollonia region of http://www.cincypost.com/living/1999/greek011299.html

UC team unearths Stone Age artifacts By Sharon Moloney, Post staff reporter University of Cincinnati archaeologist Jack L. Davis and his team went to Albania to study traces of Greek colonists in that country in the seventh century B.C. 'That's what we thought we were going to do,' Davis said. 'But as often happens in archaeology, you don't find what you think you will.' Davis and his team instead found an amazing treasure trove of evidence of a much older society, a site apparently settled by humans from the Stone Age, Paleolithic times. In fact, they literally stumbled over the evidence. 'Large amounts of material from the Stone Age - which are typically found in caves - were strewn all over the surface,' Davis said. 'We didn't have to dig for them. They were actually right on the surface. There were too many even to be picked up.' Davis, the Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at UC, is co-director of the UC-Albanian archaeological team which traveled to the Apollonia region of Albania in May and June. The team will return for further work next June and July. What the team unexpectedly found were ancient Stone Age artifacts, including axes, and other tools for pounding, scraping and cutting. Equally important, Davis said, was the debris left from the tool-making. Studying such debris, archaeologists can determine how tools were made, what they were used for (for example, farming) and from there go on to learn why and when human societies went from hunting to domesticating animals to planting food.

47. Archaeology Museum owes much credit to the founders of Azerbaijanian archaeology, and among as an architectural detail, a capital with an albanian (Caucasian) inscription http://members.fortunecity.com/shahink/archeolo.htm

web hosting domain names email addresses The Museum of History of Azerbaijan of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan was founded in 1920 and now ranks among the biggest museums in Caucasus. Its funds and collections contain invaluable treasures of the Azerbaijanian people's spiritual and material culture. Among the Museum's unique exhibits a special place belongs to archaeological finds from different parts of Azerbaijan. The archaeological monuments are carefully preserved and thoroughly studied; most of them are on display at the Museum in the department of "Ancient and Medieval History of Azerbaijan". The Museum's archaeological fund and expositions number over 25,000 monuments. Each year it receives new finds from archaeological sites. Since 1969 the Museum has been carrying on underwater archaeological excavations on the Caspian sea bottom. These expeditions have yielded numerous archaeological materials pertaining to medieval Azerbaijan. Among these the most remarkable are glazed cups and dishes with images of birds and animals and details of inscriptions in Arabic, one of which represents verse by the great Orient poet Saadi. The rich collection of the Museum owes much credit to the founders of Azerbaijanian archaeology, and among them D.M. Sharifov, I.M. Dzhafarzade, S.M. Kaziyev, A. Alesperov, 1.1. Meshchaninov. The collection contains materials from Mingechevir, Orenkala, Gul-tepe, Kabala, Nakhichevan, Ismailly, Yally-tepe, Shemakha, Ganja, Baku.

48. Tiwanaku And Andean Archaeology Page - Archaeology, Cultural Heritage And Politi We are practicing what could be called archaeology of war, studying ravaged groups Bosniacs speak a version of Serbian while Kosovars speak albanian.) The war http://www.tiwanakuarcheo.net/1_main/saa2002.htm

The version of following paper is as it should have been read at the SAA meetings, prepared for a 15-minute presentation. SAA MEETINGS 2002, FRIDAY MORNING MARCH 22, 2002 General Session: ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION IN THE MUSEUM CONTEXT Alvaro Higueras To papers list Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Politics in the National Museums of the ex-Yugoslavia Original abstract: The conversion of the ex-republics of Yugoslavia into new nations has launched the creation of basic state institutions in each country. National museums are one institution recreated in this process. I will compare the archaeological presentations prepared or programmed for the National museums of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia to the historical, ethnic, and cultural reality of the new nation. And I will contrast the role of the archaeology section in these museums to other parts of the exhibit. I will conclude by discussing how “messages” provided in museums contrast to current situations where, after years of war and peace, these countries are still changing. In this paper I explore recent trajectories and perspectives of cultural heritage conservation and National Museum in three territories that were part of Yugoslavia before 1992: Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia, today independent countries; and Kosovo, a territory still in the Yugoslav federation but under control of NATO, the UN, and a local government. I will emphasize the situation in Kosovo, as it is the source of the primary data of this paper, and will compare it to the scenarios of the first two countries. Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina have had severe destruction and have urgency to reorganize museum and institutes for monuments. These institutions need to rebuild presentations of the past in the museums halls and rebuild historic towns by restoring World-class heritage monuments burned and bombed during the war. The situation in Macedonia is quite less dramatic.

49. Tiwanaku And Andean Archaeology Page - Museums In Distress: Building National Mu the tenyear period when teaching and learning for Kosovar albanian professors, teachers In the two cases reviewed, archaeology, an important component in such http://www.tiwanakuarcheo.net/1_main/saa2001.htm

The version of following paper is as it should have been read at the SAA meetings, prepared for a 15-minute presentation. A more detailed version will be forthcoming. SAA MEETINGS 2001, SATURDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 21, 2001 General Session: PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN MUSEUM CONTEXTS Alvaro Higueras To papers list Museums in Distress: Building National Museums in Eritrea and Kosovo. INTRODUCTION In this paper I discuss the development of national museums in Eritrea and Kosovo. National museums embodying the history and art of a nation are important vehicles in building or reconstructing national identity. In the two cases explored here they are essential to reconstruct the foundations for civil society. In extreme cases, it is known, they may be a form to sponsor nationalism. The role of museums in society has been of great interest to anthropologists in recent decades, finding a major forum in the World Archaeological Congress. In these meetings, archaeologists evaluated how histories were interpreted drawing on prehistoric events, and how they compare to the state of archaeological research. Countries from two “young” continents were the focus of research then: Africa and Latin America. There are today a set of new countries that face the same problems that African and Latin American countries faced forty and 175 years ago, respectively. In this paper, I will explore the role of archaeology and its public interface in the process of building national museums, and that is how this paper is pertinent to the SAA meetings. However, I propose that archaeology should have a secondary role in the cases described here, in order to emphasize other historical events essential to the first decades of a new country. There are many possible paths in building or reorganizing a national museum; and studying the reasons that underlie the planning and creation of exhibits in museums enlightens us with the social reality and social constructs a government sets for a country. Granted, sometimes governments will not direct those aspects of cultural life, often not fully grasping the public role of museums. Decisions on the contents and dynamics of the museum will be in the hands of staff.

50. Ministria E Arsimit Dhe E Shkences CHORA ). KORKUTI, MUZAFER. albanian ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF archaeology. PSOMOPOULOS, P. ATHENS TECHNOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. http://www.mash.gov.al/kerkimi_shkencor/proj_grek.html

PROJEKTET E PËRBASHKËTA SHQIPTARO-GREKE PËR PERIUDHËN 2000-2001 Title Albanian Partner Albanian Institution Greek Partner Greek Institution CAPACITY DETERMINATION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF KIWIPLANTS IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF ALBANIA. KONGJIKA, EFIGJENI INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL RESEACH - ACADEMY OF SCIENCES LEVENTAKIS, N. VITRO HELLAS S.A. MODELING BIOCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES IN FREE-LIVING AZOTOBACTERIA. SINI, KRISTAQ AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA AGGELIS, G. AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS CONTRIBUTION TO THE EXAMINATION OF QUALITY OF VIRGIN OLIVE OIL FROM CORFU AND S. ALBANIA. VANGJEL DHIMA EXPERIMENTAL STATION OF SARANDA - OLIVE INSTITUTE KANTAS, ANTHONY NAGREF - THE OLIVE INSTITUTE OF CORFU MODELLING SHEEP AND GOAT FLOCK MANAGEMENT AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT IN GREECE AND ALBANIA CILI, AGIM SMALL RUMINANTS STATION, KORCE PLOUMI, K. NAGREF, VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR AN INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF CERTAIN AREA OF ALBANIA –PILOT PROJECT VELESIN PECULI AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA AKRIDITIS COSTAS UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE

51. Culture Without Context: Issue 10, Editorial The Foundation is a British charitable trust which works in collaboration with the albanian Institute of archaeology and Ministry of Culture with the http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/IARC/cwoc/issue10/editorial.htm

Issue 10, Spring 2002 Editorial Neil Brodie T Art Newspaper in January 2000 (p. 65). But even dying dinosaurs can bite, and in February this year Schultz was bitten badly in a New York court when he was convicted of handling archaeological material stolen from Egypt. In this issue Peter Watson provides a colourful account of the investigation and events that led up to the trial, and Patty Gerstenblith discusses its legal ramifications. Schultz was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment and fined $50,000. a new Code of Ethics for Museums. The Code requires that museums should only acquire archaeological and ethnographic objects which have a secure documented ownership history that can be traced back to before 1970, unless they are judged by experts in the field involved to be of minor importance and not illicitly traded. This collaborative launch took place at a press conference held on 1 May in London and highlights the determination of the museums community in Britain to stamp out the illicit trade. It followed closely on the heels of a Ministerial announcement that the UK Government intends to accede to the 1970 UNESCO Convention by July. In the January/February 2002 issue of Minerva magazine its editor Dr Jerome Eisenberg drew attention to the fact that a conversation he had taken part in had been secretly recorded and published on a web site. The same web page also shows e-mails allegedly written by Dr Eisenberg where he calls into question the work of Dr Peter Northover, a leading archaeo-metallurgist (http://www.michelvanrijn.com/artnews/artnws-eisenberg.htm). Dr Northover, who has published widely on the subject of archaeometallurgy, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. His own web site is at http://www. materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/northover.html although it makes no mention of authentication work carried out for the antiquities trade.

52. Art By Country Or Culture Prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean. . AFGHANISTAN . A link directory. albanian painters, fine arts, articles, albanian music, albanian literature. . http://www.zeroland.co.nz/asia_china_art.html

Film Music Literature Philosophy ... Art Posters Book Hotels here for: Paris Athens Venice London ... New York Preferences: Open results in new window. Frames Format Afghanistan Africa Albania ... Yemen See also: Art Periods, Art Movements Architecture Art History Artists Index ... Sculpture, Sculptors ArtPrice The largest art auctions prices catalog in the world C O U N T R Y I N D E X AEGEAN ART AND HISTORY Ancient Aegean Art and Archaeology. Ancient Aegean art. Greece, Crete, Knossos. Maps of Hellas. Searchable culture maps of museums, archaeological site or monuments. Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean. AFGHANISTAN See: Afghanistan AFRICAN ART, AFRICAN CULTURE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART. See: AFRICA and American/Native-American Art African-American Art on the Internet. The African-American Mosaic. A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. ALBANIA, KOSOVO m Albania and Kosovo. Dance, music, costume. Albania. A link directory. Albanian painters, fine arts, articles, Albanian music, Albanian literature. Albuniza. Albanian music and art. History of Albania ... Kosovo Internet Portal. History, views, articles, Serbian viewpoints, Albanian viewpoints. ALGERIA Language, religion and media of Algeria. Arab.net.

53. Activities Netherlands (Loes VanWilligen). • International Centre for albanian Archaecology, albanian Rescue archaeology Unit,. Tirana, Albania (Lorenc Bejko). http://luka.inantro.hr/Collabor_Institut.htm

Institute for Anthropological Research Best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.5 (or newer), and medium text size Collaborating Institutions • Antropologische Abteilung, Naturhistroisches MuseumWien,Wien, Östereich (Maria Teschler-Nicola) • Cell and Molecular Genetics Section, Medical Research Council, Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK (AlanWright) • Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA (Marshall Anderson, Ranjan Deka) • Departimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma »Tor Vergata«, Roma, Italia (Gian Franco De Stefano, Olga Rickards, Andrea Novelletto) • Departimento di Genetica, Biologia e Chimica Medica, Sezione di Genetica, Universita di Torino, Torino, Italia (Alberto Piazza) • Departimento di Scienze Statistiche, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italia (Amelia de Lucia) • Department for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Human Condition, Environment and Health Unit – Koster Health Project, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden (Guy Heyden) • Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv

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55. [Projekat Rastko] Archaeology in the Middle Ages, albanians cannot show a single archaeological trace of The oldest instances of albanian material culture, taken over from Turkey, originate http://www.rastko.org.yu/arheologija/djordje_jankovic.html

Ph. D. Djordje Jankovic Kosovo And Metohia In The Middle Ages - Archaeological Research Senior Lecturer Head of the Medieval Archaeology Department, Philosophical Faculty, Belgrade Belgrade, 1999 The fact that Kosovo Polje belonged to the Serbian State in the IX-X cent. has been most obviously archaeologically proved by the most ancient Serbian and Slav administrative testimony found at the Cecan fortification near Vucitrn. It is a shard of a jug used for the payment of taxes in wine, marked to a volume of six measuring units, denoted by means of notches and Glagolitic letters (G. Tomovic, Inscription glagolitique de Cecan, Revue historique, XXXVII, Institut d'histoure, Belgrade 1990, pp 19). Cecan was probably conquered by the emperor Samoil in his war against Serbia in cca. 988, when the Serbian duke Jovan Vladimir, the saint whose reliques have been preserved in the Orthodox temple at Elbasan, Albania, was taken prisoner. As far as is known, from among all the Serbian areas, apart from those of Montenegro and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Metohia is the one with the greatest number of churches that have been in continuous use for over a thousand years. The temples and churches founded in the VI-VII cent. and/or in the IX-XI cent., for instance those at Lipljan, Gracanica, Bogorodica Ljeviska at Prizren, and others, are still there; Turkish and Austrian devastations in the XVI and the XVII cent. have left the remains of Banjska, near Kosovska Mitrovica, of Studenica Hvostanska, near Pec, of Arhandjeli Prizrenski, etc.

56. Maritime Underwater Nautical Archaeology - Private Programs For the first time in albanian history this centre will study, preserve, and defend the underwater archaeological potential of their coasts. http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/programs/private.htm

Maritime Underwater Nautical Archaeology Private Institutes, Centers, Research Groups and Private/Non-Profit Societies, Associations, Organizations In dealing with private groups I have come across two general classes. The first are the institutes, centers, and research groups which tend to be closely affiliated with academic and governmental institutions. The second are non-profit societies, associations, and organizaitons which are more or less independently run by amateur divers and nautical archaeologists. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me (the webmaster) at: admin@munarchaeology.com MUNA Home International Asia ... North America Inernational International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) - ICOMOS is an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. ICOMOS provides a forum for professional dialogue and a vehicle for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of information on conservation principles, techniques, and policies. Within ICOMOS is the ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage Inc. The Committe was established in 1991 and it's

57. ECOCLUB, International Ecotourism Monthly, Issue 52, September 2003 The archaeology of Butrint, which is being excavated by a mixed British and albanian team, is exceptionally interesting but what gives Butrint its special http://ecoclub.com/news/052/special.html

ISSN 1108-8931 INTERNATIONAL ECOTOURISM MONTHLY Year 5-Issue 52, Sep 2003 EDITORIAL ECOCLUB INTERVIEW THE EXPERT ECO FOCUS ECO WORLD* ECO EVENTS NEW PUBLICATIONS ECO PHILOSOPHY* ... Sponsored by: *Columbia College, USA ECO FOCUS In this issue Sir Patrick Fairweather * writes on the prospects for Ecotourism in Albania The Baptistery in Butrint, 6th c. AD Albania did not share in the rapid growth in tourism that other countries in Eastern Europe experienced following the end of Communism in eastern Europe. Political instability and trouble in the region, particularly in Kosovo, encouraged the perception that Albania was a difficult if not dangerous destination. This perception is no longer justified and it is time to look at what Albania has to offer the tourist. These things are subjective but for this writer the main attractions are the coastline from Vlore south to the Greek border; splendid archaeological sites, particularly Butrint, which remains for the time being Albania's only World Heritage Site; noble late Ottoman towns such as Gjirokastra and Berati; and the traditional villages, often set in rugged mountain scenery, in which you can enjoy the harmony of stone built houses in their landscape and the simple but genuine pleasures of eating in Albania - yoghurt, honey, incomparable bread and eggs from chickens which enjoy a freedom which their British counterparts lost years ago.

58. ECOCLUB, International Ecotourism Monthly, Issue 52, September 2003 organisation set up in 1993 by Lord Rothschild and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover to assist the albanian authorities with the archaeology and conservation http://ecoclub.com/news/052/interview.html

ISSN 1108-8931 INTERNATIONAL ECOTOURISM MONTHLY Year 5-Issue 52, Sep 2003 EDITORIAL ECOCLUB INTERVIEW THE EXPERT ECO FOCUS ECO WORLD* ECO EVENTS ... Sponsored by: *Columbia College, USA The ECOCLUB Interview Index of Past Interviews Sir Patrick Fairweather Director, The Butrint Foundation Sir Patrick is the Director of the Butrint Foundation, which funds archaeology and conservation in the World Heritage Site of Butrint, in south-western Albania, since 1997. A former member of the British Diplomatic Service, his career took him to more remote or less well-known parts of the world such as Laos, Angola, Sao Tome and Albania, as well as Rome (twice), Paris, Brussels (EU) and Athens. What and who are the Butrint Foundation, what was the main reason behind the Foundation's creation and who took the initiative? The Butrint Foundation is a non-profit organisation set up in 1993 by Lord Rothschild and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover to assist the Albanian authorities with the archaeology and conservation of the World Heritage Site of Butrint. Lord Rothschild, who has a house in Corfu almost opposite Butrint, was struck by the extraordinary beauty of the site when he was first able to visit in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Communist regime.

59. 29 JULY 1998 SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES PM ROW OVER WHO WILL MANAGE albanian ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE Conservative employees of the Institute for archaeology and National Monuments sent a petition to http://www.b-info.com/places/Bulgaria/news/98-07/jul29.rfe

60. 2001 Projects Additional goals of the 2001 project will be the education of young albanian archaeologists in the techniques and practice of nautical archaeology and the http://ina.tamu.edu/fieldprojects01a.htm

2001 Projects Excavations New World Excavations Old World Surveys New World Surveys Old World ... Other Projects EXCAVATIONS NEW WORLD Denbigh Excavation The Denbigh is the only Civil War blockade runner to be excavated in the Gulf of Mexico and one of just a few that have been investigated anywhere. The Denbigh was hailed as a pinnacle of achievement in British maritime engineering, design, and construction. This ship became the last blockade runner to clear a Confederate port. The goals for 2001 include recovering the port engine, drive train, and paddlewheel; continuing the search for contents including personal possessions and cargo; and continuing to record structure and technological details. Monte Cristi Shipwreck Project During the seventeenth century, contrabandistas and buccaneers rampantly fueled illegal trade on Hispaniola's northern coast. Historical evidence documenting this practice is scant; archaeological evidence is virtually non-existent. One exception to this record may well be the Monte Cristi the remnants of a vessel that possibly represents our first archaeological evidence chronicling this illicit enterprise. Archaeological collections from contemporary sites suggest that the cargo was destined for the eastern seaboard of what is presently the United States- specifically the Hudson River Valley. Certain items were intended for trade with Native Americans. Research is intended to determine the nationality of the vessel, the primary destination of the vessel and the cause of the vessels' demise

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