Pasko Kuzman
Паско Кузман
Pasko Kuzman with Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov
Director of Cultural Heritage Protection Office Cultural Heritage Protection
PresidentGjorge Ivanov
Prime MinisterNikola Gruevski
Personal details
Born (1947-10-15) October 15, 1947
Vapila, Ohrid Municipality, Socialist Republic of Macedonia
ProfessionArchaeologist
Websitewww.uzkn.gov.mk

Pasko Kuzman (Macedonian: Паско Кузман; born 1947) is a Macedonian archaeologist.

Work

Kuzman has been working on the whole territory of North Macedonia, but especially in the Skopje area and Lake Ohrid, one of the deepest lakes in Europe. There, he has been excavating 3,000-year-old submerged sites of Lychnidos, and some remains in the area of the Samuil's Fortress, which were built probably at the time of Philip II.

Kuzman is considered in North Macedonia to be the most deserved man for the archaeologist findings in the country in the recent years.[1]

In 2013 he was arrested on antiquities smuggling charges, and placed under house arrest for 30 days.[2] A year later he was found guilty of aiding a criminal ring in excavating and selling off valuable archeological artefacts, and was sentenced to three years in prison.[3]

Kuzman is a firm believer that the enduring archeological mystery of the tomb of Alexander the Great is hidden in southeastern parts of North Macedonia, and pledged in an interview in late 2012 that he will never stop searching for the tomb.[4]

Private life

Pasko Kuzman is married and has four daughters, most recently he became a grandfather.[1]

Pasko Kuzman is a self-proclaimed time traveller. He wears three watches on his left wrist, which he says help him travel through time: one takes him back to the Bronze and Neolithic Age, one takes him to the future, and the third is "The Archeologists' Watch," which alerts him to the presence of gold.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Vecer Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine По 4 ќерки-Внук - Паско Кузман стана дедо. 29-12-2009
  2. ↑ "Macedonia Puts Top Archaeologist Under House Arrest". Balkan insight. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Macedonia Jails its Top Archaeologist". Balkan Insight. 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  4. ↑ "Macedonia's 'Indiana Jones' Scorns Retiring at 65". Balkan Insight. 2012-11-17. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  5. ↑ Richard Bangs, Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth, p.297, Menasha Ridge Press, 2007



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