It's those 2000 year old photos that I hanker for. :) 200 years ago is magical, 2000 years ago would be incredible. Oh, to peruse the stinky streets of Herculaneum!

Gosh, I hope humanity can keep it up for another 2000 years, keeping out heritage and history well-recorded.

well we have something better than photos from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians -- sculpture! ex. the bust of nefertiti (~1345 BC)

Artists rendition.

When I look at the bust of Nefertiti I like to imagine Nefertiti saying something like "destroy it, make the nose a little smaller, then execute the artist".

To be fair, that'd just as likely be true of a photograph as well. People in the digital age forget how much artistic freedom is granted by staging a photograph and later processing it in the darkroom.

or a mummy

Perhaps one day daylight "bent" by a sufficiently strong black hole and turned back toward the Earth can be collected and analyzed revealing pre-historic and possibly even ancient conditions of the world. Of course, this would be birds-eye, but who can fathom the ability of light to be analyzed by sensors developed several millennia hence. Man may one day obtain images of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, flocks of pterosaurs migrating, or something as detailed as Socrates being led off to prison for his execution.