Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Albania's old treasures

Two interesting articles on Albania's old treasures, considering also that these come from two opposite continents:

- by Prof. Skurdenis of NY, written for ITN about archeological sites on Albanian soil, and
- by China Daily, through the English version of Xinhuanet news agency, about ancient times shipwrecks along the Albanian Ionian coast.

While the latter is too fresh as news to contain more details (this research refers to last August project), the article on ITN, is one of the best brief, but quite comprehensive descriptions I've come across on this subject so far, with Butrint taking the lion's share of publicity since it's on UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.