HistoryLayer: World Atlas

HistoryLayer is a map of the world you move through time. Drag the year along the bottom and the borders change with it — maps running from 123,000 BCE to the present day, through the Upper Palaeolithic, the Bronze Age, classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, the industrial age and the world wars. Stop anywhere and the map fills in with what was happening on that ground: the events of the year, the people alive for it, the wars under way, and the settlements that existed by then. WHAT IS ON THE MAP • More than 23,000 events — warfare, politics, disaster, religion, science, art, exploration and society • More than 12,000 lives, placed where they were lived • More than 800 wars, drawn as the ground they covered rather than as a pin • More than 13,000 settlements, appearing in the year they were founded MOVING THROUGH TIME The ruler carries a stop for every map the atlas holds, and the era…