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Dr. Aggeliki Simossi, former Director of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, initiated the "Return to Antikythera" research project, which she co-directs from 2021 to 2025 with Lorenz Baumer.

Lazaros Kolonas (in Greek: Λάζαρος Κολώνας) is honorary Director of Antiquities at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. He supervised the Cousteau expedition in 1976, and, as Director of Antiquities, visited the Museum in 2005 while the new research was ongoing.

Emmanuel Lykoudis (1849-1925, in Greek: Εμμανουήλ Λυκούδης). As legal consultant to the Ministry of Education, Lykoudis kept the diary from the official survey of the Antikythera wreck in 1900-1901.

Spyridon Stais (1859–1932, in Greek: Σπυρίδων Στάης) was ministry of education at the time of the Antikythera wreck discovery, key person for the setup of the official dive. Subsequently, he was the first to notice the fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism during a visit at the National Archaeological Museum, on Saturday, May 23, 1902 (Julian calendar - so May 23 in our current calendar).