In this period, notable works about antiquities were published, such as Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum I-IV (1883–1885) by Arthur Evans, Arhaia geografia the Makedoniae (1874) and Makedonia en lithois fthengomenois kai mnemeiois sozomenois (1896) by Margaritus Dimitsa.
Archaeologists in the territory of present-day North Macedonia were then from Belgrade or from other Yugoslav cities such as Sarajevo and Zagreb.
Archaeological curriculum was introduced for the first time in the University of Skopje's Faculty of Philosophy (established 1946) in the academic year 1974/1975.
[1] The discipline was influential during the dispute between Macedonia and Greece over the ancestry of Alexander the Great and ancient Macedonians.
In the country, the field has often been placed at the service of the state, and used to legitimise nationalist claims to history, culture, and territory.
[4] Around 80 artefacts were found during an excavation of an archaic necropolis from the 6th century BCE at the Rasnica site in the village Korošišta in 2024.