Were you never curious "What did the Romans or Egyptians really think about X? How did they really spend their days?"

I know I am curious and history books leave more questions than answers. Even the most well preserved facts about kings/dynasties/wars are partial at best and leave out so many interesting things out...

My feeling is that archeologists et al would love 10x or 1000x more data about what happened in the past -- not to have to guess everything and never be sure "is that really what happened?"