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Flavio Biondo

Italian historian

Joseph Justus Scaliger

Dutch philologist and historian

Richard Lepsius

German Egyptologist

Hellanicus of Lesbos

Greek historian

Dionysius Exiguus

canonist

Marianus Scotus

Irish historian

Sextus Julius Africanus

Christian historian

Gabriel de Mortillet

French archaeologist

Oscar Montelius

Swedish archaeologist

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

Danish archaeologist