We don’t give ancient people enough credit for having found ingenious ways of doing things that our own lines of thought and investigation haven’t yet accessed.
Some past civilizations existed for thousands of years; and it seems that people could have observed a lot of things and - by virtue of their unique mindsets - figured out some very clever stuff, in all of that time.
We think that we are the first, great ‘scientific’ civilization; but other and very different approaches to ‘science’ may have gone before.
I agree.
I’m am quite saddened by the destruction of the Library at Alexandria.
Erasing all that knowledge from the past, it’s an amazing act of ignorance.
Like the spark plug found in a coal steam in Australia?