The Minister of Culture, Hajrulla Çeku, has announced that a team of archaeologists have found a Roman altar from the first half of the 3rd century AD in the wall of the Vuçaku Castle in Drenas.
Çeku said that this happened only a few months after the beginning of excavations and said that this discovery is “very important”.
“Only a short time after the beginning of the archaeological excavations in Vuçaku Castle in Drenas, we already have the first very important discovery. The team of experts, consisting of archaeologist Shafi Gashi, Sali Islami and Arbnor Morina, discovered a Roman altar of the first half of the III century, after Christ, in the surrounding wall of the castle. The object is a spolia reused in the construction of the fortress of the Justinian period (527-565 BC). The altar is of particular importance and an indication that there is continuity of life from prehistory, antiquity to the Middle Ages”.
He has also published the photographs from this discovery.
