Greek Temple Discovered In Albania

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MONTREAL, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Ohio researchers have found one of the earliest Greek temples in the Adriatic region north of Greece, in coastal Albania, near Apollonia.

 

"This is a case where a hunch about the potential of a site is paying off in the discovery of a temple that has extraordinary and singular importance to Albanian archaeology and to the history of Greek colonization in the Adriatic Sea region," says Jack L. Davis, of the University of Cincinnati and co-director of the international research team that included the International Center for Albanian Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology in Tirana.

 

"We are gaining the tools for an understanding of religious life in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., a part of the early history of Apollonia of which little is known."

 

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati's Classics faculty presented the findings at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America Friday in Montreal Friday.

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About eight miles outside the city of Fier are the ruins of the ancient city of Apollonia ... uncovered from a 1000-year nap.

 

Founded in 588 BC by Greeks from Corinth, the city quickly grew to 50,000 residents by the second century BC. Apollonia later became a free Roman city after it sided with Julius Caesar during the war against Pompey. It developed into a cultural center of the arts until the 3rd century AD when an earthquake rerouted a river and lead to the city's decline.

 

The Austrians started escavating the site during W.W.I and the French later continued the work through the 1920s and 30s. While Albanian archaeologists have made some progress over the last few decades, much of this ancient city still remains buried in the hill