Neat. I have always said the ancients were not as stupid and backward as many have tried to convience us they were.
John Anthony West, a fringe writer (and in recent years, a dyed in the wool hater of GWB et al) once said that, we like to think of the people of the past to be woefully backward and superstitious, unlike "smart old us with our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste." :')