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Anno Mundi

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Anno Mundi

“In the year of the world”

A curated atlas of more than a thousand turning points, from the first writing in Sumer to the present, placed where and when they happened. Drag the timeline, press play, or follow a story.

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Event selection, dates and summaries curated for this project; images and extracts load live from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Historical borders: aourednik/historical-basemaps (GPL-3.0), approximate by nature. Earth imagery: NASA Blue Marble & Black Marble. Coordinates mark a representative place: a capital, battlefield or signing site.

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Anno Mundi

3200 BCE

5,000 years of history on one planet