Years ago I worked in a job, and myself and a colleague were discussing whether the Ancient Egyptians had electricity, perhaps generated from a battery.
I offered the view that it was probable they had some form of it, though very limited compared to today's world.
A colleague at the next desk overheard us, and instead of politely asking to join in the discussion, snapped that he though I was talking rubbish.
He said it with a real anger in his voice, then proceeded to point me out to various people in th eoffice and tell them "This idiot thinks the Ancient Egyptians had electricity".
He carried this on for a few days, and I could feel a very angry vibe around him.
He made no attempt to offer any explanation behind his viewpoint or his anger.
Other than that all I knew about him was that he was cheating on his wife with a woman who worked in the office, and did little to hide it.
I left the company about a month later, for reasons not connected to this.
But it shows how some people simply are not reasonable.
I don't know why this is.
I've mentioned the Egyptians knew ice and gotten the same response but the writing refers to hail storms so of course they knew ice. It gets cold enough they could make it through an evaporative process but everyone thinks ancient people were idiots.
They were also familiar with the the hydraulic cycle and actually describe it in the writing!
They also describe in excellent scientific detail how rainbows are formed. By the by the Great Pyramid angle is the color red in the secondary rainbow and the angle down the corners is the color red in the primary rainbow. They refer to the water droplets as the "light scatterer of the sky" which create "steps of light".
You can't tell these people anything and they look right through you.
They not only knew that lightning was electricity but apparently suspected the nervous system and the control of the heart worked similarly.
324a. To say: N. is a heart-beat, son of the heart of Shu,
324b. wide-outstretched, a blinding light.
324c. It is N. who is a flame (moving) before the wind to the ends of heaven and to the end of the earth,
324d. as soon as the arms of the lightning are emptied of N.
Every indication is this was written before 3000 BC and was definitively earlier than 2250 BC.
The meaning remains somewhat enigmatic but everyone believes they understand it perfectly. No two Egyptologists agree on the meaning of anything.
I believe ancient people were a different species and we are
homo omnisciencis because we think we know everything.