# Butrint Foundation

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'''Butrint Foundation''' is an international organization founded in 1993 in the UK by [Lord Rothschild](/source/Jacob_Rothschild%2C_4th_Baron_Rothschild) and [Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover](/source/John_Sainsbury%2C_Baron_Sainsbury_of_Preston_Candover). The foundation aims to conserve, preserve, and develop the [Butrint](/source/Butrint) site in southern Albania. Professor Richard Hodges served as director of archaeology. The [Packard Humanities Institute](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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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