At the end of 1999 a new Rescue Archaeology Unit was set up in Albania, funded by the Packard Humanities Institute. Its activity during 2000 has been intense, and focused on four main projects, always in co-operation with the Institute of Archaeology of Tirana.

Article from the Kosova Crisis Center, the question of the ethnic and cultural continuity between the early Illyrians and the mediaeval Albanians, besides being one of the most attractive issues of Balkan history, has also acquired a political dimension in recent decades.

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.

The survey work in Albania is part of a larger international and multi-institutional project centred on the Bronze Age settlement and Antique to Ottoman city of Butrint, in the extreme southwest of Albania only a few kilometres from the Greek border and within sight of Kerkyra (Corfu). Includes preliminary reports.

The classical and Byzantine city of Butrint occupies the top and slopes of a low hill which projects into the Vivari channel and separates the inland lake Butrint from the Adriatic to the east.

From ScienceDaily, remnants from a synagogue dating from the 5th or 6th century, C.E., have been revealed in the coastal city of Saranda, opposite the Greek island of Corfu.

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 preliminary report on excavations and related studies, 1992-1994. From Iliria.

An unlikely outcome of the Kosovo crisis was a new interest in Albanian archaeology.