A HUMAN HISTORY OF CONFLICT
Before the dates.
Beyond the borders.
There were people.
The lives caught between armies. The choices that changed a world. Explore 120 conflicts through their causes, consequences, and contested records.
BEGIN WITH A STORY
A closer look changes the picture.
Three places to begin.
Follow the questions into the record.
01 / THE MEDITERRANEANWhat did a struggle for the sea mean on the shore?
Read the record of Rome and Carthage, and the uncertainty behind the familiar numbers.
Open the dossier ↗
02 / THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENTWho gets to tell the story of a conquest?
Consider the distance between an imperial account and the lives it describes.
Open the dossier ↗
03 / ANCIENT CHINAWhat does unification look like from below?
Explore a changing political order through the archive’s sources and qualifications.
Open the dossier ↗The cover scenes are historical illustrations. They do not depict verified people or particular events.
PUT THE RECORD IN PLACE
History has
a geography.
Read conflicts across a world map. Move through dated borders, follow an empire’s reach, or open a regional close-up.
Open the conflict atlas ↗
Modern reference geography · Representative locators · Natural EarthA DIFFERENT WAY TO LEARN
Can you connect
the moments?
Make a choice. Reveal the context. Build a timeline.
Step inside the History Lab.
WHICHCAME
FIRST?YOUR NEXT FIVE QUESTIONS →
A PROJECT WE SUPPORT
The world is connected.
The news should be, too.
Global News Map ↗
A news-driven globe, built by an independent open-source project. We’re giving it space here because this is work worth exploring.
Take a closer look ↗Screenshots: Global News Map · Static previews, retrieved 28 September 2026.
FOLLOW THE THREAD
Every era. A different world.
Sources and uncertainties stay in view.
About the era images & sources
- Ancient — Editorial illustration. War by War · Illustrated historical reconstruction
- Medieval — Editorial illustration. War by War · Illustrated historical reconstruction
- Early Modern — Editorial illustration. War by War · Illustrated historical reconstruction
- 20th Century — Lebanese Civil War. Vyacheslav Argenberg · 2008-09-05 · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗
- 21st Century & Ongoing — Anglophone Crisis, Cameroon. Voice of America · 2020-04-01 · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗
Generated historical scenes are imagined, not documentary evidence. Historical and context photographs retain their own dates and source credits; their full context is on the linked dossier.
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A DIFFERENT WAY TO EXPLORE
Know what came first?
Four conflicts. One timeline. Put the past in order.
Play the chronology challenge ↗THE HISTORY LAB / FIVE ROUNDS AT YOUR PACE
History is
in the sequence.
Put dates into context through two short games drawn from the archive. Choose a format, make your call, then open the records behind it.
Image sources & context
Two records from different places and eras. This image pairing is an invitation to explore their context.
CHOOSE AN EXPERIMENT
No timer. No rush. Every answer leads back to the source record.
Starting years come from selected archive dossiers. BCE dates use the same chronological order as the records; this exercise does not resolve disputed dates.