The quest for artificial intelligence understanding is often framed as a modern endeavor. Indeed, the ambition to synthesize human intellect has deep foundations in antiquity. From the complex automata of ancient Greece to the intriguing oracles of Mesopotamia, early cultures explored the permutations of intelligence exterior the realm of nature.

Prehistoric civilizations, shrouded in mystery and time's passage, might hold hints of artificial thought. Long-gone tools, arranged with a surprising order, suggest a mind whose transcended the purely functional. Were these the vestiges of an intelligence {far{beyond our grasp? Perhaps, etched into cave walls and buried beneath layers of history,