Chronicles of the human past
Five thousand years of conflict, from the first cities of Mesopotamia to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Every event mapped, every claim sourced.
Each entry is pinned to where it happened, connected to the wider conflict and the key people involved. When the sources contradict each other, or when someone's reputation doesn't quite survive the primary evidence, the chronicle says so.
The Mesopotamia Chronicle
Land Between the Rivers, 9000–1500 BC
The Napoleonic Chronicle
Wars of the French Revolution and Empire, 1792–1815
Showing the working
Most history sites tell you what happened. These try to show you why we think it happened, and how much of the standard account you should actually trust. Ancient troop numbers are almost always propaganda. Famous chroniclers turn out to have been writing decades after the event. And a surprising number of well-known stories rest on a single disputed source.