An important discovery for the dating of the settlement, in the city of Himara! The Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Vlora, together with the National Institute of Cultural Heritage have discovered a tumulus cemetery of the Late Bronze Age (15th-12th centuries BC).

The cemetery was first discovered in 2018, in the bed of the Korram stream, northeast of the city of Himara. The surface graves were threatened to be damaged by the flow of the stream and by clandestine interventions, for this reason, in the spring of 2018, in order to document the cemetery and rescue the archaeological material, the first phase of rescue archaeological excavation was carried out, during in which a mound from the Late Bronze Age (15th-12th centuries BC) and several cist graves were discovered. For a more complete documentation of the cemetery, in the last two weeks of June, 2020, the second phase of the rescue archaeological excavation was carried out, where a second mound was discovered, which confirms the existence of a tumulus cemetery near the city of Himara.

The archaeological material has now been moved to the premises of the Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Vlorë.

The National Council of Cultural Heritage will decide on the further steps to be taken. It is the turn of researchers and scientific researchers to take this important discovery further.