I want to learn about all sorts of ancient history, but I'm especially interested in Europe and Northern Africa from around 1200 BC to 1000 CE. But I don't just want to learn about events and historical figures. What interests me most is the anthropological and cultural side- what people did, how they lived, what life was like, how people of the time viewed each other (like what did 8th century Danes think of the Byzantine Empire? Did they even know it existed?), their beliefs, their folklore, how those beliefs impacted how they lived their daily lives, what places traded with which other places and what they traded with each other, what punishments were given for what crimes and how it differed by location, etc. How can I learn more about all of this, in depth, without going to college to study history?