Discover that the technology of the ancient Greeks, just before the end of the ancient world, was shockingly similar to the beginning of our modern technology.

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But then an Abrahamic religion stuck itself onto Neoplatonism and so goodbye to Antikythera mechanisms, etc. and hello to dogmatic superstition, obscurantism, and the eventual destruction of all advanced (thus mysterious) mechanisms, which came to be viewed as magical/satanic.