Well, versions of it can certainly be found in ancient religious
texts.
Ezekiel's vision:
"The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the
color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The
appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel within the
middle of a wheel"
Sounds like a description of the visual (not time) fourth
dimension to me.
Some of the stuff that came out of India around that time had
some of that nature as well - pretty sophisticated systems of
thought that were definitely involving multiple simultaneous
perspectives. I don't believe our biological capability to think
stuff has changed. Just the way we go about it.