In May-June of 1998, a team of Albanian and American archaeologists gathered to inaugurate a joint project of regional archaeological study in the vicinity of the ancient city of Apollonia (founded in 588 B.C.E.), located near the modern-day city of Fier, just above the village of Pojani.
In June 2000, a team of archaeologists from the Institute of World Archaeology and the Albanian Institute of Archaeology began a field survey in southern Albania, with the aim of re-locating a number of prehistoric caves and surface sites that were first explored in the 1930s by Luigi Cardini.
Following reports that the World Heritage site of Butrinti was damaged during the civil unrest in Albania in early 1997, a joint UNESCO-ICOMOS-Butrint Foundation assessment mission went to the site from 20 to 24 October 1997.
Archaeologists excavating a part of the ancient town of Butrinti found what they said may be a 2,000-year-old statue of the Roman goddess Minerva.
A team from the University of Cincinnati has discovered a monumental temple in Albania that may be one of the earliest ever found in the region.
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