Not everything in the Bible is true...

[Jun aka Pekto]

It is a well known fact that even with our advanced building/engineering equipments of today, we can never replicate the perfect structure of the pyramids. That's one of the mysteries of the pyramids until modern times.

One factor which added to the mystery was the destruction of the great library in Alexandria by a fire which destroyed many priceless records of inventions and ancient methods. Many so-called modern day inventions were shown to exist in ancient times after evidence were found recently.

I wouldn't under-estimate the capabilities of the human mind. Even a simpleton like me figured out how to bisect a circle by using Dad's drawing compass in the first grade. When I was younger, I liked drawing circles with crosshairs and then drawing something in the bullseye.

There was a series on the History Channel on such a topic.

* One Greek inventor made a "magic door" which opened by itself like magic after people put enough "sacrifice" (coins) on a container outside.

* Then the concept of the mechanical clock has existed for ages

* There was even a drawing of what could have been the prototype for a steam engine.

* The discovery of what looked like the first battery (as in Eveready) in Iraq.

* The discovery of a relic off Crete which consisted of elaborate gears (as in watches); something the ancients were not considered capable of...