Notice "EARLIER understanding". Archaeology was a thing back when witch trials were all-too-common, and the Divine Right of kings was still mainstream thought. Howard Carter was ~done excavating Tutankhamun's tomb before British women had equivalent voting right to men.
I think your conflating a lot of different time periods for events which differ between nations.
Since you’re using a British Egyptologist as an example and we’re speaking English let’s stick to Great Britain.
The divine right of kings was considered on a significant decline by the Glorious Revolution in the late 1600s so that’s off by several centuries for the genesis of early/gentlemen archaeology began.
The last witch trial in England was also in the late 1600s so again off by several centuries.
And while you are correct about Howard Carter and women’s voting rights I think it’d be important to note that in 1902 parliament had not even given the right to representation for men who weren’t property owners either which was a significant if not majority of men.
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).
