An Archive

Webster’s defines an “archive" as no more than “a repository or collection.”  But living in an age when we have accumulated more information than any single person could comprehend, we suspect that archives can be (should be?) more than that.  From Alexandria to archive.org, humans have tried to collect. And lost. What’s on scrolls in a jar not to be found, or lost in fire and ice, or on a cassette or floppy disk in an attic with no machine to read it?