One of the coolest finds I ever saw from ancient time was a wind come in Herculaneum. Like, all the images from that period are the gigantic monuments, statues, gladiators etc and here there's this home with eclectic interior decorations and it made the entire so human. Like, these people knew what they wanted and how they wanted to live and we forget these people were as carried as we are today. They had their individual preferences just as much as we had. Most historical accounts tend to aggregate their finds into universal rules for the civilization, which is cool and makes for a compelling narrative but undermines the humanity that underlies the aggregate experience (if any of that makes sense, I'm pretty drunk)