It did come up in the news when Saddam Hussein was deposed and then lots of people were raiding museums and ancient dig sites for artifacts to sell on the black market.
Otherwise, it really depends on if you read anything about history, language, writing, etc.
The cycles render is a pseudo-random path tracer, so the less samples are taken the higher the random noise. Increasing the samples and some other tweaking reduces the noise significantly, but also takes much more time. Denoising the rendered image can produce better visual IQ for less render time.
So strange.