Archaeology is usually not as glamourous as the Indiana Jones movies would suggest. Rarely do archaeologist find golden objects. Much of the work is tedious and time consuming. Excavation can be dirty and frustrating. Yet the past is something that we are interested in.
Archaeology is the study of the past with a focus on human behavior.
As such, it is a study that intrigues us tremendously. We want to know about the past. About things that happened that were perhaps important. They may have lived in a different culture, but they were human. They tell their story through what they made and left for us.