[overcast]

We're constantly digging up old and dead things because we care.

[triceratops]

But they stay dead and we can study them at our leisure. If it was people who started walking around again doing stuff, we'd have a different opinion.

[overcast]

You really think if we could reanimate some ancient person, we wouldn't? Imagine what we could learn from important people in those times.

[triceratops]

It depends. If cryonics becomes widespread, "ancient people" in suspended animation would be pretty common. There wouldn't be that much to learn from reviving all of them.