Recently refined: the Timeline now has event search and an era jump strip, figure pages lead with a clear "watch the episode" action, and a staged Episode Studio walks admins from subject to finished scenes.
Explore theTapestry of Time.
From the Big Bang to tomorrow — an intelligent, cross-linked atlas of the universe, life, civilisation, and the people who shaped them.
Your guide
I'm Atlas.
"From the Big Bang to tomorrow, every story has a place on the timeline. Travel with me, and I'll bring along seven specialists — an archaeologist, a geographer, an inventor, a chronologist, an astronomer, a storykeeper, and a lawgiver — to help you read the past."
Guided journeys
See how the stories connect.
A few memorable stops, a wider world at each date, and a chance to test what you remember.
Food, homes and monuments
Compare New Guinea gardens, Gunditjmara channels, Jōmon homes and American earthworks.
Start journey · 6 stopsRights, resistance and independence
Connect Haiti, Waitangi, Japan, women’s votes, Adwa, Bandung and Ghana on one axis.
Start journey · 7 stopsBefore the first cities
Follow settlements into several urban worlds, from Anatolia to Peru and the Indus.
Start journey · 6 stopsAfrica’s connected kingdoms
Move from the Nile and Red Sea to southern Africa, the Swahili coast and Mali.
Start journey · 6 stopsOn This Day · 4 October
Sputnik launched
The Soviets launch the first artificial satellite. The Space Age begins. The accelerates.
New · The Time Slider
Was Cleopatra closer to King Tut
or to the building of the pyramids?
Explore cosmic ages and human prehistory, then zoom into the precise BCE/CE calendar. Compare regional histories, distinct construction phases and the people living at the same time.
New · Mini Documentaries
Watch a life in 48 seconds.
Six cinematic scenes, native voice-over. Eight to start — the rest open as you go deeper.
William Shakespeare
The Bard of Avon · 1564 – 1616 CE
Albert Einstein
The Architecture of Spacetime · 1879 – 1955 CE
Leonardo da Vinci
The Unfinished Man · 1452 – 1519 CE
Cleopatra VII
The Last Pharaoh · 69 – 30 BCE
Plato
Founder of the Academy · 428 – 347 BC
Lao Tzu
The Old Master · c. 6th century BC
Harriet Tubman
Moses of Her People · c. 1822 – 1913
Toussaint Louverture
Liberator of Haiti · 1743 – 1803
The Cast
Eight lenses on history.
Four ways to enter
Enter through time, place, idea, or person.
Featured eras
Ages of the world.
The Cosmic Dawn
From the Big Bang to the first galaxies and stars.
Formation of Earth
Our solar system condenses; the young Earth forms, is struck, and cools.
First Life
Single-celled life emerges; oxygen begins to accumulate.
Complex Life
Multicellular life, the Cambrian explosion, and the age of dinosaurs.
Age of Mammals
After the asteroid, mammals diversify. Primates emerge.
Human Ancestors
Hominins split from other apes. Tool use emerges. Homo erectus walks far.
Threads of history
Explore by theme.
All of history, intelligently connected.
Ask our AI Historical Guide anything. Learn with Academy Mode. Explore the map. Dive deep.