1 / 9Students of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. In a rich agricultural basin in southeastern Albania, gas pipeline construction work is offering archaeologists a unique insight into 5,000 years of history in a country that was off most experts’ radar during decades of isolationist Communist rule. The excavations near the village of Turan, which ended Friday, September 28 after 18 months, have unearthed one of the biggest ancient cemeteries in Albania, with about 1,000 layered burials, several of them richly furnished. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
2 / 9A student of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. More than 20 Neolithic sites have been found in Albania, dating roughly from the 7th to the 3rd millennia B.C., which are some of the earliest farming settlements in Europe. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
3 / 9A student of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. According to Turan lead archaeologist Iris Pojani, the pipeline work provided the opportunity — and the funding — to excavate an unusually large inhabited area from that era. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
4 / 9A skeleton is seen after it was found in an ancient grave at a recently discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
5 / 9A student of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. A team of 50 archaeologists excavating an area of 4,000 square meters (43,000 square feet) found three cemeteries from the Iron Age, late Roman times and the Middle Ages. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
6 / 9A student of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. No traces of the settlements these cemeteries served have yet been located, but Pojani said it's easy to see why people through the ages chose to live there. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
7 / 9Students of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. Grave goods included rings, bracelets, earrings, amber and glass beads, gold coins, lots of pottery — including local copies of 11th or 10th century BC wine jugs popular in neighboring Greece — medieval wooden caskets and clothes worked with silver thread, as well as spears, daggers, knives and swords. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
8 / 9Students of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. Turan, 180 kilometers (110 miles) southeast of the capital Tirana, is the most important of about 30 sites already found during laying of the underground Trans Adriatic Pipeline, or TAP, that will bring natural gas from Azerbaijan through Turkey, Greece and Albania, and across the Adriatic Sea to southern Italy. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
9 / 9Students of archaeology works at a recently-discovered archaeological site in Turan village, outside Korce, Albania. Wednesday August 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)
