Archaeology and espionage at Salun's Border in the O'dyllita questline

Let's dig deeper on the archaeo-log about Salun's Border from the blogpost about archaeology in the O'dyllita questline.

(As already wrote) the first (direct) reference to archaeology in the O'dyllita questline occurs at Salun's Border.
Despite having visited some ruins and historical monuments (like those of the Turos), as well as having met the archaeologist Lafi Bedmountain once again, I felt like those were merely narrative engine to this section of the Main Scenario.

Inside a cave in Salun's Border instead we meet Hyruphis, a Luthragon specifically sent to secretly investigate ancient ruins, as we read in the related "knowledge" (aka character description) he's doing it undercover as a wandering archaeologist.
[IMAGE HERE of Hyruphis with cave ruins in background] His primary task is in fact to uncover past relations between local populations and the Kamasylvian faction, in order to exploit such connections in the conflict with O'dyllita.

Hyruphis (Salun's Border node manager):
"Hyruphis, the Luthraghon, has secretly infiltrated O'dyllita under orders from Brolina Ornette, the Queen of Kamasylvia, and the Luthraghon"
[quest "Unnecessary Conflict" 25/64 of O'dyllita 1]

Trace of Gyfin I (Salun's Border upper Ganelle camp):
"A type of structure commonly found in Gyfin Rhasia Temple. Did their civilization's influence reach this far? Or have they been through here?"

Outside of the BDO world's lore, which here is telling us Saluns may have been connected to the Gyfins of Rhasya Temple (through the display of similar architectures in Myruphis's cave) and thus possibly making for powerful allies, this can be a nice tip to reflect upon the exploitation of archaeology for functional purpose.
Furthermore, as the context in this case is specifically a war and a contested border zone, it couldn't but remind me of the (in)famous cliché of secret agents working undercover as archaeologists to retrieve sensible data with the excuse of academic studies -arguably considered "neutral".
Such thing is not only limited to the fiction of narrative medias, though these helped popularising the trope, but it was an actual secret task assigned in wartimes either willingly or forced as an 'accomodation' proposal for many scholars in the field. One example, or might be the stereotype of it, is Lawrence "of Arabia" who served as an archaeologist and military for similar contexts in the arabian territories during the first thirthy years of 1900.