The city of Durrës continues to discover ancient treasures. Recently the expedition led by Prof. Assoc. Dr. Brikena Shkodra is located in the garden “1 May” in neighborhood number 11, where the latest discoveries date back to the late medieval period.

At a depth of 60 cm medieval tombs have been discovered, but also the first layers of the floor of a building have appeared, which for the time being remains unknown.

“We have found traces of a floor that should be related to a structure still unknown to us, but it could be the floor of a courtyard, which then, starting from the low depth, I believe is related to the medieval period. This moment the use of space is cut for the placement of a cemetery. “We have 4 graves identified so far that again belong to the medieval period”, said Shkodra, reports “ReportTv”.

Excavations will continue for about a month, after which the area will return to its original state, to resume at the same point in the coming years.

This is the second expedition that Shkodra archeology is conducting in the coastal city, while previously the excavations were focused on the Byzantine Forum.

The director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Kosovo, Arsim Gërxhaliu, in an interview for Ekonomia Online said that during the recent excavations in Kizhevak, Serbia, the skulls of two people were found.

He further clarified that during Tuesday they are expected to be withdrawn, in order to take samples for DNA test.

“On Saturday, the work of the first team was completed, today at 07:00 the second team also started with three members, they will work until Saturday, so six days a week they work. Anyway, we will have work in the next week and depending on the problems that may arise in the field, it may happen that it is extended until it is completely finished.

So far, after removing a layer of soil and stones, two skulls and at least two people have appeared on the surface, for whom they should be withdrawn and a forensic inspection should be done and DNA samples should be taken “, said Gërxhaliu .

Gërxhaliu says that there are still two weeks of work regarding the excavations in this part and that the number of bodies that are suspected to be there is not known.

“We have work for two more weeks, in terms of number I do not prefer to say, but I can say that the Serbian side, which says 14 times and 16 times, but we must know that this group belongs to Rezalla group, which is related with the part found in 2014 in Rudnica, even from two new identifications belong to that group that was an earlier investigation of ours that we suspected, so the same has been confirmed. “And we also have a reunion, because half of the body of the case submitted earlier has now come out in Kizhevak.”

Since starting work in Kizhevak, Gërxhaliu confirms that a team of four people have made a detailed field inspection, reports EO.

“Yes, last week we started working in Kizhevak, we were a team of four members, two forensic scientists, an anthropologist and a forensic photographer. The first day we did the de-conservation of the terrain, there were five layers of geoplastic measures, which we placed in December to preserve the terrain and not to move, so a detailed control of their removal was done and the first day a little we waste time until the tool for 3D measurement of bone parts is assembled ”.

“We know that somewhere in a thickness of four meters there are mortal remains, because they were thrown by truck and there was a scattering of bone parts and it is normal that every iron bone part should be measured and be in the program”, concluded Gërxhaliu.

Excavations for the remains of the victims of the 1998-99 war in Kosovo, resumed on May 5, continued on Monday in Kizhevak, Raska.

On Saturday, the location of the mass grave was also visited by a senior delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross from Geneva, accompanied by representatives of the two delegations within the Working Group on Missing Persons.