Lookback

Choose a place. Choose a time. See what it might have looked like. Lookback is a time machine for places. Pick anywhere on Earth, go back to any year from 1000 BCE to today, choose the light, from dawn to night, and look back. You get the scene as it might have been, a short documentary note read from real sources, and numbered details that tell you what you are looking at and where it is documented. YOUR FIRST JOURNEY IS FREE Start without an account. Pick one of eight cities: Rome in 120, Kyoto in 1600, Cairo in 1250, Tenochtitlan in 1500, Istanbul in 1453, Timbuktu in 1500, York in 1450 or Paris in 1789. Open its look, then watch it come alive in a fifteen-second film. Sign in when you want to keep it. FLING THROUGH THREE THOUSAND YEARS Drag the years under the needle and feel each period click past, named the way the place itself names them: Heian and Edo in Kyoto, Mamluk and…