The past, in four great arcs
Each arc gathers dozens of episodes, turned into pages where the map comes alive, the timeline scrolls and the numbers take shape.
At the dawn of civilizations
From prehistory to the Neolithic: the first cities, the first inventions, the first borders.
Great discoveries & conquests
Explorers and conquistadors: Columbus, Magellan, Cortés, Pizarro, Zheng He…
Nations & empires in animated maps
How countries and empires took shape, region by region, century after century.
Genetic & linguistic history
The peopling of the world, told through DNA and language: migrations, blendings, lineages.
Latest page, entirely rebuilt
A video from the HerodoteVideos archive, recreated as a standalone page: maps, timelines and diagrams in WebGL, Canvas and SVG — not a single imported image.
Climate at the Birth of the First Civilizations
Why did the great civilizations of the Old World emerge along the same latitudinal belt — and why were so many other regions left behind?
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