Archaeologists expedition to discover the secrets of the underground of ancient Durrës.

For several days, the expedition of the Institute of Archeology has started work in one of the most important sites of Durrës.

Archaeologists have returned to the Byzantine Forum, to shed more light on the topography of ancient Durrës.

What they expect to discover there, the head of the works, archaeologist Brikena Shkodra, tells us.

“They are annual works that we do in the same season and we have just started in fact. It is an ongoing project of the Institute of Archaeology, which has as its objective the study of the form, function, and role that the city’s circular forum had for the city in Late Antiquity,” she said.

The findings of last year’s expedition shed more light on the transformations this forum has undergone over the centuries.

The current excavations in its southern part are expected to reveal even more in this direction.

“The data we received last year proved to us that we have an important construction complex, which precedes the construction of the circular forum and is an unknown element in fact,” Shkodra said.

The Byzantine Forum located in the historical center of the city is among the rare monuments of the Byzantine era in Albania.

During previous expeditions, archaeologists have emphasized that traces of Hellenistic and Illyrian culture can be discovered under the finds of fragments of Roman residential buildings.