'''Butrint Foundation''' is an international organization founded in 1993 in the UK by Lord Rothschild and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover. The foundation aims to conserve, preserve, and develop the Butrint site in southern Albania. Professor Richard Hodges served as director of archaeology. The Packard Humanities Institute provides support.<ref name="Elsie2010">{{cite book|last=Elsie|first=Robert|title=Historical Dictionary of Albania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6inIiCF_930C&pg=PA64|year=2010|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-6188-6|pages=64–}}</ref> Patrick Fairweather served as the foundation's first director,<ref name="Hodges2008">{{cite book|last=Hodges|first=Richard|title=Rise and Fall of Byzantine Butrint|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2mcMAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Butrint Foundation|isbn=978-0-9535556-7-3|page=5}}</ref> and was involved in the Buthrotum Roman archaeological site work from 1997 until 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/culture/2001/08/16/butrint-preserved|title=Butrint preserved|newspaper=The Economist|date=16 August 2001|access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="HodgesBowden2004">{{cite book|last1=Hodges|first1=Richard|last2=Bowden|first2=William|last3=Lako|first3=Kosta|author4=R. D. Andrews|title=Byzantine Butrint: Excavations and Surveys 1994-1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3lpAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Oxbow Books for the Butrint Foundation|isbn=978-1-84217-158-5|page=18}}</ref><ref name="Esterhuyse2012">{{cite book|last=Esterhuyse|first=Willie|title=Endgame: Secret Talks and the End of Apartheid|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2dRBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT140|date=17 May 2012|publisher=Tafelberg|isbn=978-0-624-05812-0|page=140}}</ref>
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Category:Archaeology of Albania Category:Organizations established in 1993 Category:Archaeological organizations