Posted on 04/15/2006 7:14:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of Greek and Albanian archaeologists are cooperating on a three-year excavation project in Epirus, northwestern Greece... Joint research is being carried out at ancient Antigoneia under the supervision of the institute, headed by Muzafer Korkuti, and the 12th Ephorate, headed by Constantinos Zachos... Albanian archaeologist Dhimosten Budina identified the city on a 35-hectare site at roughly 600 meters altitude, with walls 4 kilometers long. The identification was made on the basis of bronze ballots bearing the inscription "ANTIGONEON" on a Hellenistic-era house... Zachos said the impressive tomb, which contained fragments of jars, a glass vase, loom weights, a lamp, potsherds and Roman storage jars, was "along the lines of Macedonian tombs" and dates from the Hellenistic era.
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