I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times (Psalm 77:5).
The Bible provides for us a fascinating perspective on the passage of time. Three thousand years ago, the psalmist was seeking to understand Gods ways in his time, and each new generation seems to think that it is the new wave, leading the world out of its past darkness into a new age of enlightenment.
There is need for scientific research, of course (in fact, this is implied in the dominion mandate of Genesis 1:2628), but we need to keep in mind that true science is really thinking Gods thoughts after Him.
The results of our scientific discoveries should always be to glorify the Creator and to draw men closer to Him, not lead them away from Him.
The same is true of history. We are merely the children of the ancient patriarchs, and our moral natures are the same as theirs, all contaminated by inherent sinfulness and the need for divine salvation.
God dealt with them as He does with us, so that every later generation needs to study and learn from the generations of ancient times, and from Gods inspired histories of them in the earliest books of the Bibleespecially Genesis, as well as Exodus, Job, and other ancient books. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope (Romans 15:4).
God is the same today as He was in Eden, on Mount Ararat, in Babel and Canaan and Sinai and Calvary. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God (Psalm 90:1,2). HMM