0 people who lived in ancient times, especially the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans:
The ancients were just as serious about training regimes as professional athletes are today.
Today, the winged messenger of the ancients is forever linked to the mysterious planet Mercury.
The ancients had no telescopes and, therefore, no knowledge of these planets.
Deciphering the scripts of the ancients is not an easy business, especially if those scripts do not form part of the "family tree" of any currently existing script.
In one Aztec legend Quetzalcoatl is sent to the underground to get the bones of the ancients.