If you want to tell a story of the past, you don't just need texts but also objects that record the interests and achievements of humanity. 

The collector helps to collect, classify, catalog and explore the past.

Thinking about the past or a remote world through things is always a process of poetic recreation. Not being able to know everything for sure, we have to find new ways to make up for our limitations; After all, objects were created by people like us, so it shouldn't be that difficult to guess what they were made for.