Greeks noticed that rubbed amber attracts straw and feathers. In 1600 William Gilbert named the effect electricus, from elektron, amber. The word for a mysterious attraction became the word for lightning, current, and the grid.
The Greeks did not name amber for its color but for the sky. Elektron is kin to elektor, a Homeric name for the beaming sun, and they prized the golden resin, with whole insects sealed inside from forests older than Greece itself, as something like solidified sunlight. Rub it against fur and it wakes: feathers and chaff leap toward it, a small invisible pull from a stone that looks like trapped light. Thales of Miletus, around 600 BC, is the first name attached to the observation. For over two thousand years that was all electricity was, the sun-stone's ghost, waiting in jewelry boxes for Gilbert to give it a name.
Artifacts like the Baghdad Battery, a clay pot with copper and iron, are cited as proof ancient civilizations generated electricity, implying lost technology.
The grandest technology carries the humblest origin in its name. Does the mismatch change how you see either one?