A temporary exhibition at the Archaeological Museum at Volos presented a number of antiquities from the excavations, which are in storage there. Adrimi says the problem archaeologists now face is the conservation of antiquities. They give us peanuts for conservation. I have asked for those archaeologists and conservators whose contracts run out at the end of the national road excavations to stay for a further two years. Such experiences appear to have hardened archaeologists who neverthess seem able to resist pressures from state officials and contractors alike.
Technocrats now have a different attitude.