Additionally there is one separate foreign-run Archaeological library in Athens, as well as one foreign research institution elsewhere in Greece.

From the Hellenic point of view, the foreign archaeological schools exist to assist in the professional recovery and protection of overwhelming numbers of antiquities within and below the country's topography.

Antiquities have always been a prey to treasure-hunters, collectors, dealers of all sorts, and the thefts and counterfeits of unscrupulous men.

These now semi-legendary archaeologists and schools dominated the culture scene, excavating places such as Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae, Knossos, and Troy in Turkey.

3028/2002 "on the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General," passed by the Hellenic Parliament in 2002, and implemented by the President.

In a single sweeping injunction it declares all antiquities the property of the state and establishes criminal penalties for mishandling them.

[1] A network of archaeological councils is set up over localities and regions of the entire country, which must be advised of the presence of antiquities and consulted as to their disposition.

It is defined as "the exploration of the ground, the subsoil, the seabed, or the bed of lakes and rivers for the purpose of locating or discovering ancient monuments ...."[3] These researches are divided into two types.

These are not undertaken as part of any emergency activity to rescue threatened antiquities, but are assigned to excavating institutions in due process by the Minister of Culture.

"[4] The law allows to each accredited school "a Maximum of three excavations or other archaeological research per annum."

He had returned home, only to be recruited into the British Army and sent back to Crete to work as an operative because of his knowledge of the locality and the people.