Hey Man, well this is Babylon

I’ve got a hankering for a different kind of Dungeon Crawl. I’ve got a hankering to play one in which the characters are not warrior-robbers trying to kill everything and take their stuff, but instead scholars, explorers, archaeologists, and cave-crawling experts seeking information and relics from ancient cultures. Maybe they have one or two weapons among the lot of them, but mostly be pretty non-combat. A game where the characters get extremely excited about discovering intact flower pots and eating utensils from a bygone era. There would be a lot of game focus on history and culture, and a lot of time spent surveying areas, studying the flora and fauna, etc.

Have any of you run or played in games like this? Are there any published adventures or modules which specifically focus on this?

EDIT: Yowza! Somehow, this became a heated topic on a livejournal community where I cross-posted. Regardless, there are a lot of damn good ideas in there that I hope to steal in the near future.
- NPC