High on a hilltop near the village of Ploçe, Albania, lie the ruins of the ancient polis of Amantia. The city was founded in the 5th century BC and is first mentioned in ancient sources around the middle of the 4th century. It experienced an economic and cultural boom during the Hellenistic period, and from 230 BC started to mint its own coins.
Albania
CWA travels to Apollonia & Byllis
Nearly 20 years of digging in and writing about Albania’s ancient sites has left a vivid impression on archaeologist and traveller Oliver Gilkes.
CWA travels to: Butrint, Albania
How on earth do you get the students up at 5am? That, rather than the archaeology, is the question that preoccupies my colleagues at the American University of Rome when I mention the Butrint Field School in Albania. Students are not generally known for their eagerness to rise at the crack of dawn and those […]
A postcard from the Forty Saints
Today the Forty Saints sits discreetly above the crowded bay of Saranda (Hagioi Saranta), in southern Albania, overshadowed by telephone aerials. Enter the arcing harbour and your eye is drawn to a melée of small boys plunging into the water, little sun-tanned minxes in an otherwise sleepy, almost dreamy, tourist town. Saranda’s ancient history, when […]
Albania, Butrint
Richard Hodges reflects upon a rich year at the glorious site of Butrint in Southern Albania, and on his search for one of its most distinguished citizens: the 1st century BC millionaire Titus Pomponius Atticus.
Albania’s Byzantine Butrint
Richard Hodges charts the latest finds from Albania’s magical site
Cape Styllo
Richard Hodges sends his regular archaeological news, this time from Cape Styllo, a ‘no-man’s land’ between Greece and Albania
Prespa, Greece and Albania
Richard Hodges sends news from Lake Prespa
Albania: Butrint from the Air
A tour of Albania’s ancient city from a stunning new aerial perspective
Butrint Museum Re-Opened
After undergoing refurbishment Butrint’s oldest museum will open to the public on 22nd October 2005
Albania
Over the years there have been several magic moments during my digging career. Trowelling down to reveal my first mosaic in a Wiltshire Roman villa was possibly the first; peeling back the dirt to expose a brightly painted ninth-century abbot in a crypt at San Vincenzo al Volturno was simply breath-taking. Now I have another […]
Mozafer Korkuti
Richard Hodges interviews Muzafer Korkuti, Director of Albania’s Institute of Archaeology
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