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Re:China's ancient water pipe networks by bell-cot on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:55PM (#37438601)
I'm not confining archaeology to Howard Carter, nor his stereotype, nor his (generally) post-Victorian era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_archaeology

Following a few links - William Harvey (b. 1578, graduated from Cambridge 1593) both conducted excavations at Stonehenge, and was a prominent skeptic of allegations of witchcraft. But it was 70 years after his death that the last "legal" execution for witchcraft was performed in the British Isles (Janet Horne, 1727).

Meanwhile, Wikipedia also credits Robert Filmer (graduated from Cambridge 1604) with being one of the most famous exponents of Divine Right, and notes that that issue was pretty much settled - at least in Britain - by the English Civil War (1642-1651).

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