I'm not talking about religion. & He isn't either from what I read in the article. But maybe that's just me

These scrolls & monuments & pieces of clay have humongous historical value. It's true as well that they have religious value to many but the religious part is beside the point from what I can tell

Just like we'd love to find a first edition of the first time someone wrote down the poems of Homer - in 2018 they found a clay tablet which reportedly "may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece" which is the same kind of cool https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44779492