Interactive History Map Tools

Free tools built on 2,500 years of historical border maps: a daily puzzle, a two-year comparison, town histories, true-size empires and animated border maps.

• Daily map puzzleGuess the year of an unlabelled historical map in five tries, then share your score.
• Compare two yearsSwipe between two border maps and see which states appeared, vanished, grew or shrank.
• What country was my town in?Search 7,000 towns for every state that ruled them since 500 BC.
• True size of empiresDrag Rome, the Mongols or the Inca across the globe and compare them with modern countries.
• Animate changing bordersMake a GIF or a vertical video of borders changing in any region and period.
• The interactive atlasDrag the timeline, open cities, battles, landmarks, journeys and trade routes.