eli5: How did ancient armies find each other before battles?

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EDIT: A little background to the question for people saying scouting (and to clarify why I initially posted). This was my first thought as well, but in reading about Roman history, I’d found out that they were notoriously bad at scouting, as it was something that they felt was below them (and it cost them at Lake Trasimene). Thats when I realized I had no idea how these armies would actually find each other

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Scouts.
Smoke trails from campfires.
Light from campfires.

It’s quite hard to hide 40000 soldiers and horses.

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