The development of human civilization through writing systems, ritual practice, hydraulic engineering, and monumental architecture.
Interactive mapping of North America's largest pre-Columbian city, a complex urban center at its peak larger than contemporary London.
Explore →Trace the development of writing from Phoenician to Greek alphabets and beyond. An interactive visualization of how letterforms evolved across cultures and centuries.
Explore →An exploration of ceremonial practices across ancient civilizations, examining the intersection of ritual, astronomy, and early science.
Explore →A 3D reconstruction of the Treasury of Atreus (Tomb of Agamemnon), one of the most impressive tholos tombs of the Mycenaean world.
Explore →c. 1300 BCE. Tracing Jason's voyage from Iolcos to Colchis and back across the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea, layered over the real geography of the Greek world.
Explore Map →802–1431 CE. The Khmer Empire engineered four great barays and ~600 km of canals to sustain a city of one million people. The water infrastructure that built, and ultimately could not save, the medieval world's largest urban complex.
Explore Map →928–944 CE. When Jayavarman IV relocated the Khmer capital 100 km north to Koh Ker, he built a jungle city of prasat towers and a seven-tiered pyramid. A GIS research brief on the lost capital of the Chok Gargyar empire.
Read Report →1st–4th century CE. A GIS data sheet and digital terrain analysis of the Roman villa at Mostine, Split, set within the broader landscape of Roman Dalmatia and the Adriatic frontier province.
Read Report →4th century BCE – 106 CE. The Nabataeans carved a desert empire from the Incense Road. This atlas maps the Rose-Red City at Petra alongside the caravan network, trade routes, and inscribed frontiers that made a nomadic people the wealthiest traders in the ancient Near East.
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