Interesting....
There is much about our history that is lost and buried, we need to keep searching our past if we are to reliably chart a way forward. Religion has definitely not helped in this regard, burying the old sites under their new sites. The churches and cathedrals I saw in South America were often built on top of the old Incan temples in a symbolic usurping of one god's power by another newer god.
I agree that a great deal of history has been lost....there were great civilizations about whom we have no real knowledge....
@SkotlandSkye I've visited a few places in South America where there are forbidden archeology relics and it certainly doesn't jive with accepted theories on human history. I suppose tenure for professors would be in jeopardy if they started rewriting history based upon some of these artifacts.