Butrint Foundation

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 has been director of archeology. The Packard Humanities Institute provides supports.{{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–}} Patrick Fairweather served as the foundation's first director,{{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}} and was involved in the Buthrotum Roman archaeological site work from 1997 until 2004.{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/739297|title=Butrint preserved|newspaper=The Economist|date=16 August 2001|accessdate=22 February 2015}}{{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}}{{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}}