The End of the Human Civilization on Earth

i've been spending a lot of time learning about text criticism, that is, looking at ancient documents. And for me, i'm interested in that because of the new testament, but for other documents as well. I still think stuffs just well documented now. We have such an overwhelming amount that it would take something really special to destroy our self documentation. If i can ever master the skill of reanimation, which is something i've been working on, and if i could find the corpse of the person who built that mechanism, we could bring them back to life,. They could answer every single one of our questions about how it works.