The Ashmole Archive at King’s College London houses over 10,000 photographs, prints, glass slides, and other media that document art from antiquity. The collection serves as a resource for studying how scholars used technology for over 100 years to research ancient Mediterranean art. This article reframes the collection from a classics resource to a media archive and explores the process of finding fragmented technologies from the past and how to study them as historic objects. Ultimately, the obstacles of this practice reveal how changing technologies impact expectations and priorities about what is preserved and what is forgotten.