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The burial tumulus of Lofkënd lies in a single of the richest archaeological components of Albania (ancient Illyria) domestic to a few burial tumuli spanning the Bronze and Iron a long time of later European prehistory. Modern knowing of the pre- and protohistory of Illyria has largely been formed by way of the contents of such burial mounds, yet some were robbed in the past, others reused for contemporary burials, and few were excavated less than clinical stipulations.
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