Is it true that ancient civilization's knowledge holds the secret to alchemy?

the ancient civilization like the ancient Rome, china ...Is it true that ancient civilization's knowledge holds the secret to alchemy?
yes and know, i would think they had information we don't have any more but all alchemy is, is just basic scienceIs it true that ancient civilization's knowledge holds the secret to alchemy?
Why do you suppose that there is a 'secret' to alchemy? In one direction alchemy gives rise to modern chemistry, so along that axis modern chemistry holds the secret of alchemy.


In the other direction alchemy may be less a technology for manipulating elements than it is a mnemonic stratagem for organising and retaining essential wisdom.


Edward Kelley had one approach to using alchemy as a wisdom route in seventeenth century Prague with John Dee (Dee was the original for Doctor Faust in many ways). But you don't want to know about that route, it is too dangerous for you.


Robert Graves in his book ';The White Goddess'; explores another way that the alchemical alphabet may have contained both mundane and esoteric wisdoms. You will find reading Graves' book a lot less frightening than following Kelley's route - but neither of them is easy (the truth never is).
It's obviously your choice to believe me or not, but the researchable info is out there. I'd understand if you didn't, as I know what it's like to have ones romantic ideas of things broken.


Alchemy was only an occult science until it became chemistry. There was a 17th or 18th century(I can't remember the date exactly, sorry) french royal, who was quite taken with alchemistry/alchemy. He spent a long time learning all he could about it and helped bring it out into the public sector.


In those days, it was the 'in thing' to copy the royals, so many citizens started studying this too. The result of which is what we today, know as chemistry. The slight name change was a way to make it more acceptable to the rest of the world, especially considering the suspicion people had for occultism at the time.





Saying that though, there probably is far more truth than we can imagine with regards to ancient civilisations holding knowledge we today do not have in respect of chemistry and the constant to this day, search for a way to hinder or even halt the ageing process(immortality via the philosophers stone). Many of the inventions and discoveries we consider to be new, have been found to be re-inventions and rediscoveries of lost knowledge from ancient times. One good example of this is the 'new' discovery of herbal/homoeopathic remedies - once a staple of long gone civilisations! So it may well be so, that somewhere in antiquity, they knew of a way to slow down the rate at which we age, therefore die.
No, absolutely not. Modern civilization has, however, discovered the most coveted secret in alchemy: word is, in an experimental nuclear reactor near Lake Baikal in Russia in the seventies, the lead shielding had turned (partially) into gold from exposure to the radiation from the core.





The reverse reaction - gold to lead - is apparently much easier.
Yes