Robert Moore Williams' "Robot's Return" (short story, archeology, free)

Three robots from a far away world are visiting a dead earth in far future. Their history hints it as the home world - world they originated from. They'll slowly reconstruct the story of their builders.

There is cheating here, particularly the ending where they realize connection with the man. But I mostly liked it.

Collected in.

1. Raymond J Healy & J Francis McComas (eds)' "Adventures in Time & Space".

Fact sheet.

First published: Astounding, September 1938.
Read online at Scribd.
Rating: A.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.