The Timelory Historical Atlas is an interactive map visualization showing how empire borders changed throughout history from 3000 BCE to the present day. Explore the rise and fall of over 100 civilizations with year-by-year border changes.
Explore Interactive Atlas →From a small city-state to an empire spanning three continents. Watch Rome's expansion under Julius Caesar, Augustus, and Trajan, and its eventual division and fall.
Three millennia of pharaonic civilization along the Nile. Explore the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms, and Egypt's conquest by Alexander and Rome.
The first true military superpower. Watch Assyria expand from a city-state to control all of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant.
Read detailed history →4,000 years of dynastic history from the legendary Xia through Shang, Zhou, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
From Anatolian beylik to controller of three continents. See the conquest of Constantinople and expansion into Europe, Africa, and Arabia.
The largest contiguous land empire in history. Follow Genghis Khan's conquests and the subsequent division into khanates.
Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanid empires. From Cyrus the Great to the Arab conquest, watch Persia shape the ancient world.
Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates. See the rapid expansion of Islam from Arabia to Spain and Central Asia.
The Eastern Roman Empire that survived for a millennium. Watch its territorial changes from Justinian's reconquests to the fall of Constantinople.
Alexander the Great's lightning conquests from Greece to India. See the empire's rapid division among his successors.