I canāt help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying āit was done with this and thisā, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went āoh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discoverā
For a long time, archeologists didnāt know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to āneedleā in the descriptions. They went, āseems like weāll never know.ā Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.
The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went āoooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?ā LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went āwhat if we did the thing the pictures said they didā AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.
Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going āthatās a myth sweatyā
Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, weāve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.