Daft_ishHow likely do you think it is that there may have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?
Go back even further - there were some very clever people people around in ancient times. Example: the Antikythera device. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Who knows what they might have come up with? So much knowledge was lost to fire and flood and warfare over the centuries.
Stone henge. Pyramids. Etc.
Didn’t the Romans accomplish something similar when they built the temple of Jupiter?
Those dudes were truly onto something.