The remains of a Roman amphitheatre in Butrint, photographed in the 1950s. In 1997, the Butrint Foundation, along with UNESCO, encouraged the Albanian government to declare the whole site, and 30 square miles around it, a national park.
Posted on 07/08/2007 10:40:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Richard Hodges, Professor of World Archaeology at the University of East Anglia, directed the first excavations in 1994... Thirteen years on, the English lords still support the work at Butrint, along with another multi-millionaire, David Packard of the Hewlett Packard computer fortune. Between them about £500,000 is being spent on Butrint every year... At the foot of the acropolis there is a well-preserved Greek temple with Roman additions. And alongside the massive walls of an early Christian church, I could make out the double circle of pillars of a Baptistery in the centre of a perfectly preserved intricate mosaic floor. Beyond the walls, Butrint spills out onto the plain where archaeologists have found the remains of a palatial villa... We stopped at a deep trench where a section of the Roman forum was poking out from under three metres of earth and rubble... There is a Venetian fort on the waterfront and another one closer to the sea that dates from Ottoman times in the 19th Century.
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The remains of a Roman amphitheatre in Butrint, photographed in the 1950s. In 1997, the Butrint Foundation, along with UNESCO, encouraged the Albanian government to declare the whole site, and 30 square miles around it, a national park.
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The Butrint Foundation was founded by Lord Rothschild and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover in 1993 as a charitable trust.
Its principal objective is to restore and preserve the Butrint site in southern Albania for the benefit of the general public. Projects are made possible with the generous support of the Packard Humanities Institute.
Albanians as now mainly muslim and before that maoist - hardly respect the Greek and Roman ruins on their land...lots of stuff at Butrint was looted in the 90s.
interesting.
thanks.
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