Chronoglobe

Chronoglobe lets you turn back time on Earth: drag the time slider or type a year to see the world's polities, archaeological sites and Indigenous nations as they are recorded in open historical data. Open the globe →

Honesty notes

• Borders are approximate snapshots (54 years from 123,000 BC to 2010), not every year. Ancient borders are especially uncertain.
• Card text comes from Wikipedia. Rulers, capitals and coordinates come from Wikidata. Nothing is invented: if a fact isn't found, the card says "unknown".
• Capital pictures marked "AI illustration" are AI-generated impressions, not historical images.
• Archaeological site dates are rounded, approximate occupation ranges.
• Indigenous homeland markers show approximate locations, not borders.
• Map submissions go into a review queue. Nothing is published automatically.

Credits & licenses

• Borders: historical-basemaps by A. Ourednik and contributors, GPL-3.0
• Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each card links to its article.
• Data: Wikidata, CC0. Photos and portraits: Wikimedia Commons; each image links to its file page for author and license.
• Earth imagery: NASA Blue Marble, public domain
• Rendering: globe.gl and three.js, MIT

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