TUMULUS DE KAMENICA

Not very high but measuring 74 m in diameter, this tumulus (Tuma e Kamenicës) is one of the largest in the Balkans. It houses over 400 individual tombs dating from the ^13th to the ^7th century BC. Prior to this, the site served as a necropolis for the Neolithic "Maliq culture". Discovered in 1996 but looted the following year, the tumulus has since been the subject of extensive research by an Albanian-American archaeological team. The team has now made the site accessible to visitors, with a small museum.