I share your fascination with ancient civilisations, we could do with knowing much more about them. Knowing what we know now about how profit twists history, and actually what we think we know, we should be realising we know even less than we thought we did about ancient civilisations and our own origins.
Now a lot of science is having to be rethought, since we realised the effect of profit, noticing but maybe still not yet accepting, it is intricately linked with energy by extraction, thus unsustainable, yet this is the mode of all business and government, even business that claims to be trying to fix the problem.