Why do we reject ancient wisdom? What do we know that they don't?

>>3081558
It's amazing how much stuff we've had to revisit because we dismissed ancient/medieval ideas that turned out to be true. Everything from the Old Testament to the Xia Dynasty to King Arthur seems to have some factual basis behind it.

>>3081558
>What do we know that they don't?
Seriously?

Loads of stuff how technology worked, what the things they experienced amounted to, intricate details about the world they couldn't find out about since resources and technology was limited, what other parts of the world looks like and what are their inhabitants ideas of it.

It's because we learn from the ancients that we can criticize their works

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enjoy your plague

>>3082194
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

>>3082221
Yeah but they don't have the internet.