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Just a humble opinion....but the archaeology crowd are tied to money....kinda like the climate change crowd. They need sponsors and gov’t bail-out or buy-in players to pump cash in....lots of cash.
As long as there’s money....folks generate interest. I would suspect these folks woke up to realize the ‘broke’ Greek government wasn’t going to put down a dime. So fine....let it sit there for twenty years and wait until they toss money into this.
> “Finally, as everybody knows, Greece is a bankrupt country and is controlled completely by the Troika and IMF. I believe that some of the bureaucrats and politicians would not like the money spent on a very expensive underwater expedition.”
Tbat’s what I first thought.
But then if a gold vase or cup or marble statue of a Greek god were found.....financing would come from all over.
The cover-up is being orchestrated by the CIA. They don’t want people to know that Odysseus was held at Guantanamo for 7 years (Homer lied when he said it was Calypso’s island). Actually Odysseus was first kidnapped by Mossad and they handed him over to the US. So it all turns out to be the fault of the Bush administration, like everything else.