The Mahabharata, in this sacred Indian text written in the eighth century BC. King Revaita is described as travelling to the heavens to meet with the creator God Brahma only to return to Earth hundreds of years in the future.

Some researchers believe this Hindu tale may be one of the oldest records of successful time travel in the ancient past. There's the story of a king called Revaita and he is taken into space to see the Gods and when he returns to the earth, he finds that many ages have gone by and it's been hundreds of years. And this is the kind of thing that would happen to space travelers and in time travel, as well.

You think you're gone for only a few days, but when you return to Earth you find out that you're been gone for hundreds of years.