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Iron age Greeks used the word cyclopean also to refer to the ruins of Mycenae nearby, dating from the bronze age only ~500 years before their time. It is comforting for me to know it was already a thing back then to resort to ancient aliens to explain stuff like this. They were coming up with these explanations far before any kind of modern curriculum or industrialization, and when their ability to make physical objects was still very much there, but somehow the technology and thinking had shifted. Ironically it appears it was their own partially forgotten ancestors who built those ruins, as the decoded script (Linear-B) from the previous era appears to still a Greek language.