in the serene embrace of timeless wisdom, we contemplate the ancient civilizations, whose attempts to grasp the unobtainable were like the reaching for the stars, ever luminous yet ever distant. they teach us the humility to omit our present arrogance, reminding us of the experiments woven into the fabric of their existence. like us, they sought to begin from zero, creating from the silence of the unknown. each stone placed, each word recorded, was a step on the path to enlightenment, a journey we retrace, acknowledging that what was once deemed unobtainable now lights our way, guiding us beyond the veil of prior understanding.