The Collection
Every artifact in this museum is placed at its original location — not a museum shelf, but the actual site where it was created, built, or discovered. From the Pyramids of Giza to the temples of Angkor Wat, from Viking longships to Inca citadels.
Six Ways to See the Past
Browse by category: Architecture, People, Battles, Artifacts, Art, and Spiritual sites. Each category reveals a different layer of human civilization across time and geography.
Across Civilizations
Over 130 civilizations represented — from Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire to the Mongol Empire, the Aztecs, the Tang Dynasty, and beyond.
- Roman Empire (98) — Roman Forum · Circus Maximus · Capitoline Wolf
- Neolithic (67) — Göbekli Tepe · Çatalhöyük · Jericho (Tell es-Sultan)
- Paleolithic (66) — Lion-Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel · Chauvet Cave Paintings · Venus of Willendorf
- Byzantine Empire (55) — Theodora · Barberini ivory · Basil II
- Franks (54) — Palatine Chapel of Aachen · Abbey of Saint-Denis · Lorsch Abbey
- Babylonians (50) — Burney Relief · Hammurabi · Code of Hammurabi
- Celts (50) — Hallstatt · Bad Dürrnberg · Gundestrup cauldron
- Han Dynasty (50) — Great Wall of China · Battle of Julu · Battle of Gaixia
- Ottoman Empire (50) — Osman I · Murad I · Bayezid I
- Mamluk Sultanate (50) — Battle of Ain Jalut · The Mounsey Carpet · A Mamluk from Aleppo
- Inca Empire (50) — Saqsaywaman · Ollantaytambo · Machu Picchu
- Mongol Empire (50) — Karakorum · Erdene Zuu Monastery · Xanadu
- Assyrian Empire (49) — Nimrud · Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III · Sargon II
- Ancient Greece (49) — Delphi · Pythagoras · Leonidas I
- Umayyads (49) — Dome of the Rock · Great Mosque of Damascus · Al-Aqsa Mosque
- Mughal Empire (49) — Taj Mahal · Red Fort · Fatehpur Sikri
- Achaemenid Empire (48) — Cyrus the Great · Pasargadae · Cambyses II
- Seljuk Empire (48) — Ark of Bukhara · Ankara Castle · Alp Arslan
- Hittites (47) — Hattusa · Yazılıkaya · Muwatalli II
- Timurid Empire (47) — Timur · Shah-i-Zinda · Ulugh Beg
- Ancient Egypt (46) — Narmer Palette · Djoser · Imhotep
- Vikings (45) — Oseberg ship · L'Anse aux Meadows · Battle of Clontarf
- Maya Civilization (44) — Tikal · Palenque · Caracol
- Aztec Empire (44) — Tenochtitlan · Templo Mayor · Tlacaelel/ Tlakaelel
- Kievan Rus (42) — Rurik · Oleg the Wise · Siege of Constantinople (860)
- Sumerians (40) — Uruk · Warka Vase · Gilgamesh
- Phoenicians (39) — Tyre (ancient city) · Sidon · Byblos
- Scythians (32) — Pazyryk Kurgans · Solokha Kurgan · Tovsta Mohyla Kurgan
- Kingdom of Kush (31) — Piye · Shabaka · Tanutamani
- Aksumites (31) — Yeha · Book of Enoch · Adulis
- Srivijaya (30) — Muara Takus Temple Complex · Muaro Jambi Temple Complex · Biaro Bahal Temples
- Normans (27) — Battle of Hastings · Rollo · Le Mont Saint-Michel
- Tang Dynasty (25) — Xuanzang · Battle of Hulao · Wu Zetian
- Carthage (24) — Hasdrubal Barca · Battle of Lake Trasimene · Battle of Zama
- Song Dynasty (24) — Emperor Taizu of Song · Lingyin Temple · Kaifeng
- Etruscan Civilization (23) — Cerveteri · Veii · Tarquinia
- Anglo-Saxons (23) — Sutton Hoo · Sutton Hoo helmet · Lindisfarne
- Abbasid Caliphate (21) — Battle of Talas · House of Wisdom · Great Mosque of Samarra
- Visigoths (21) — Theodoric I · Alaric I · Ataulf
- Khmer Empire (19) — Angkor Wat · Phnom Bakheng · Yasovarman I