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Herodotus made an estimate of the rate of growth of the Nile delta, and used those estimates to challenge some conventional thinking about history and to make some predictions about the future. The ancients had a wealth of knowledge and competency. Probably much of it is lost.
Humans have always been highly intelligent, they were just limited by the tools of their times. And yes much of their knowledge and innovation wasn't preserved to be built off of.