Which do you think is a better road map of history artifacts of the humanities (art, music, dance, theatre, literature, philosophy, architecture, etc) or political/military conflicts? Why?

I think the best way to learn about the history is from literature that was left behind. Literature can not only tell us about how their culture was but also their traditions. If there were stories or some other kind written literature found, you could also compare the writing from then to today and see how much it has been improved over the years. Another thing that could be researched would be the different writing styles they had and how their writing was recorded. This is a good way to learn about what our world was like in the past because it has been physically recorded. Now I know with art and architecture you can also visually see them, but with those it is easier to misinterpret what the people from that time period were trying to convey to us. Don’t get me wrong in literature you can do the same thing, but I think it would be easier to make hypothesizes off of that compared to something else such as theatre, music, or dance. In literature they record information through a language that can be read, and if you translate the language right then you will know exactly what they are trying to say. You may spend months trying to analyze the language correctly but it’s better than spending a week evaluating a piece of art then falsely understanding it. Through literature several different aspects of history can be learned and many questions about the past can be answered.