Welcome!
Welcome to a new way of visualizing the history of our world. Classically, we’ve always heard and learned of historical references in a linear, mono-geographical way. For example, we learned of the building of the pyramids, but, do you know what was going on in South America at that same time?
The Visual History attempts to give a unique historical perspective by opening the aperture of our vision, plotting events not only chronologically, but geographically as well. Now you can see what was happening over the entire Earth at any particular date.
We’ve always had a compressed view of the passage of time, it’s very hard to imagine just how long 2000 years is. Each 1000px X 1000px plate in this project represents a entire century; as a result, Phase 1 alone spans 20 plates, 20,000 pixels long!
Be warned, when you click on View The Visual History, the page will take a very long time to load because of the mass of data!
When you are ready to see history in a new light, click on the button at the top!
Welcome to a new way of visualizing the history of our world. Classically, we’ve always heard and learned of historical references in a linear, mono-geographical way. For example, we learned of the building of the pyramids, but, do you know what was going on in South America at that same time?
The Visual History attempts to give a unique historical perspective by opening the aperture of our vision, plotting events not only chronologically, but geographically as well. Now you can see what was happening over the entire Earth at any particular date.
We’ve always had a compressed view of the passage of time, it’s very hard to imagine just how long 2000 years is. Each 1000px X 1000px plate in this project represents a entire century; as a result, Phase 1 alone spans 20 plates, 20,000 pixels long!
Be warned, when you click on View The Visual History, the page will take a very long time to load because of the mass of data!
When you are ready to see history in a new light, click on the button at the top!
Total
Data Points
Million
Total
Pixels
Million
Total
Bytes
100 B.C.E. --> 2010 C.E.
Phase 2: 2000 B.C. --> 100 A.D.
Phase 3: 8000 B.C. --> 2000 A.D.
Revised dates to Common Era
City Establishment Dates Added
Historic Human Population Added
Added Enviromental Data
