IMO, if we get to study the story of certain places and we happen to learn about strange races almost looking like humans but not quite. Ancient worship sites, strange lights, strange stories, places untouched for centuries, ancient religions, or stories or versions of religions that may have sprung up or influenced in some ways from certain places, we might collectively agree that places like that are as close to the past as we can get.
If we want to learn about the ways of the ancients or the Ancients themselves, why not examine such places more thoroughly? Human civilization was influenced by something ages ago and that something may have left behind something for us to find. I don't expect to find it in New York, if you get my meaning.
When I find something specific that I am looking for maybe it will make everyone jump out of their chairs reading about it. It does not concern that certain area we discuss here though indeed its discovery or puzzling sight had largely passed unnoticed even if it was discovered in an area that myriads of ancients artifacts were unearthed. Imagine what we would get out of totally unexplored areas having no real touch with modern civilization, though I wouldn't trust the local authorities for sharing everything or even anything with the rest of us.
I always wondered, why so many people, concerning themselves with archeology, hold some discoveries in contempt, discoveries such as the Dropa Stones for example.
People need to keep a open mind. You may never know when any piece of information may come in handy, especially if only thing we can see about our own futures is always bleak. Sometimes we need to take a deep and hard look to our distant past to understand our present, or even our future.
