Broadly agree, although I would say it's hard to decide which artifacts will have future value - many of the fascinating things about ancient Roman culture come

Broadly agree, although I would say it's hard to decide which artifacts will have future value - many of the fascinating things about ancient Roman culture come not from the great works of art, but from the basic bowls and tools which people used to prepare food or for other daily rituals. In the same way, future historians (or perhaps data archaeologists, to frame it another way) might find a lot of value in the things we might consider mundane or don't feel 'compelled' to digitally preserve.