Archaeologists begin the search for the ancient theater in ancient Antigone

In the ancient city of Antigone, in the south of Albania, archaeologists started looking for the ruins of the ancient theater this year. After conducting geo-physical studies, archaeologists are optimistic that they will be able to find the area where the theater and some of the main monuments of the city lie. This year's excavations also brought to light new discoveries where the finding of construction structures belonging to the earliest periods of the city that was built by King Pirro is valued. According to archaeologists around the year 295 BC, this hill under the foot of Mount Lunzheria and in front of today's city of Gjirokastra was chosen by the architects of King Pyrrhus to build the city that would perpetuate the name of his wife Antigone. It was the city of the first love of a king who lived almost 150 years after Antigone was burned by the Romans who crossed and burned with it about 50 other cities of Illyria and ancient Epirus. Albanian and Italian archaeologists and students climbed the hill that owns the entire valley of the Drino river this September in the fourth year of an archaeological mission that this time also aims to …

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Archaeologists begin the search for the ancient theater in ancient Antigone

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