it comes back in every ancient culture up til the romans (who took it from the arame(ians) i suppose)
this one is like 7000+ years ago, their city stood before the egyptians built the pyramids , they were writing and baking clay pots ...
the world is just older - there's like no record before that, back then there were actually still woolly mammoths in some places, humans actually saw those (and probably ate some too, ... now THAT must have been a bbq to write home about)

afterwards the world got smaller
and smaller

and in the last 200 years overcrowded

...
the atmosphere is shrinking too, only the lenght of a footballfield i think but if it keeps up then its an inevitable indiana jones trap ... like tick-tock

time is running out, the planets gonna choke you

or maybe as Musk might tweet : "if we can't get to mars , mars will get us here soon enough"

:)