Which cognitive biases apply to this phenomenon?

I've been searching today to find the possible name of a certain cognitive bias, if it really is a categorized and labeled bias at all. I'm referring to the human propensity to view ancient wisdom as being superior to contemporary wisdom, to believe that people who lived in the past had "secrets" or that they somehow, even and especially lacking scientific methodology, had access to transcending "truths".

This is, more or less, the opposite of novelty bias and the chronological snobbery bias. It's why many people gravitate to ancient Chinese medicine and why many people (including myself, I must admit!) are attracted to and even entranced by ancient philosophical and religious texts as if they have some form of inherent value for no reason other than how old it is.

Is there such a known bias, or is it a conglomerate of other biases?

 

Do you mean Appeal to Tradition?

 

Thank you both. Those are definitely both partially what's at play.

After more searching, I haven't found a specific cognitive bias that directly and wholly explains the question of this thread, but I have found that there is a specific logical fallacy of the same name: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ancient_wisdom