[SunkenCiv]

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Butrint, Albania. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[Verginius Rufus]

Several years ago I heard a talk by a British archaeologist who had worked at this site--it sounded like a very interesting site.

He told about how Enver Hoxha brought Nikita Khrushchev to visit the site--Khrushchev had no interest in antiquities. Before the visit, fearing that Khrushchev might be bitten by a snake, they had workers search for and kill all the snakes they could find. They forgot to tell them to dispose of the carcasses, so when Khrushchev visited there were lots of dead snakes around the site.