Maybe we're just too dumb.
Nobody alive knows. Get over it.
baghdad battery was a misunderstanding - turned- urban legend, it wasn't a battery
The cup was made with very fine particles of metal in the glass https://www.ancientpages.com/2018/08/02/the-lycurgus-cup-fascinating-artifact-that-reveals-prehistoric-knowledge-of-nanotechnology/
wootz steel has been replicated since a lifetime ago https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/29/science/the-mystery-of-damascus-steel-appears-solved.html
usual bs
stupid people today who havent a clue about the things they use every day fall for this stuff
jet199 |6 pointswritten 6 months ago ago
They worked out Roman concrete. You have to use volcanic ash.