Speaking of, for some reason last night I fell into the rabbit hole of looking through jewellery of ancient civilisations, and while the context of some of the finds makes my stomach feel very poorly (seriously don't look this stuff up, you will have nightmares), I will say that, honestly, very fancy even today.
Our craftsmanship has certainly improved, we can work much finer much more reliably as our tools are incomprehensibly better than anything they would have had to work with, but they were indisputably masters of their craft.
@ChiralTheAlien It depends on when you're making your comparison. The Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon jewellery has some amazing workmanship that would be difficult to reproduce even now.
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