In 1999 a collection of documents were found in the archives of the Italian Institute of Human Palaeontology belonging to Luigi Cardini, one of the founders of the Institute.
During research into the Italian Archaeological Mission to Albania, a collection of documents came to light within the archives of the Italian Institute of Human Palaeontology in Rome. The documents, which included various illustrated field notebooks, specialist reports, correspondence and photographs, were the work of one of the founders of the institute, Italian prehistorian Luigi Cardini (1898-1971). Cardini was seconded to Albania with the Italian mission from 1930 to 1939, the aim of the mission was to reinforce Italian supremacy in Albania through archaeological research. Cardini spent much of the 1930s exploring the southern half of Albania in search of prehistory. His notebooks record the discovery of exciting evidence of prehistoric occupation.
