Problems Stating Facts About Ancient Daily Life

It's fascinating to learn about how ancient people lived, but most of what we know is only guessed at. Archaeology provides us with most of our material facts about daily life and analysis of literature, especially satire, and other writing -- like inscriptions -- allows us to guess at other facts, but

• New research will challenge/overturn many current theories.
• Most of the materials -- like cloth -- of daily life have long since disintegrated.
• The mundane details of daily life were considered simply too ... well, too mundane to record.
• Ancient history spans millennia. What was true one century and in one place may not have been true elsewhere or at another date.
• We know something about food from such odd sources as medical writing and tombs, but we don't know how representative these "recipes" were of ordinary meals.
• We know more about the exceptional because those are the people / deeds / events that caused enough interest to be recorded.
• Writers have their own agendas.
• Standards of scholarship were not the same as current ones.
• Manuscripts have been lost and destroyed.

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The list of limitations goes on and on. Consider this a caveat for the entire site:

Most stated "facts" about ancient history should be considered interpretation or theory.