Every day life of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Butrint in the MAECI archives (Rome)

In November 2023 the Butrint Project team consulted the Historical Archive of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAECI) in Rome. 

The recent reorganisation of the archival collection focusing on the relationship between Italy and Albania during WWII brought to our attention the existence of some documents related to the Italian Archaeological Mission in Butrint in the 1930s and 1940s.

These documents are really useful to piece together the day-by-day life fo the Italian mission while they dealt with permissions, payments, troop and the discovery and study of the ancient remains of Butrint, proving, once again, the relevance of legacy data for the reconstruction of the history of archaeological research.