Old texts and images in their original languages beside clear English translations, gathered into collections: a book, a classroom set, a companion to one of our games. See every source on a map, a timeline or a list.
Set, 37 BCE–1883
Checking In
Inns, hotels, cruises and stores, from Babylon to Skylab
Space Hotel Ltd
LatinOld FrenchEnglishFrench
Set, 1263–1862
Early Americas
First contact and clashes of peoples, about 1000 to 1800
Lost Settlement
Old NorseEpigraphic MayanSpanishItalianPortugueseLatinFrenchClassical NahuatlKaqchikelK’iche’GermanEnglishEarly Modern EnglishAchi
Set, 450 BCE–500
Kitchen, Farm and Fable
Recipes, farm work, animals, fables and lessons in Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese
Classical ChineseGreekLatin
Set, 1400–1715
Food and Farming in the Americas
Maize, cassava, cacao and chili, and the people who grew them, about 1500 to 1700
Lost Settlement
Epigraphic MayanItalianSpanishK’iche’FrenchLatinEarly Modern EnglishEnglish
Set, 238–1962
Innovation in History
New ideas, and the people who tried them, sold them or fought them
LatinOld FrenchEnglishClassical ChineseFrenchRussian
Set, 238–1669
Keeping Time
How people named the months and days, fixed the year and kept a diary
LatinEarly Modern English
Set, 1520–1648
Markets and Trade
Who sold what, where, and by what rules
Lost Settlement
SpanishItalianEarly Modern English
Book, 430 BCE–1926
Once in a Lifetime
A First-Hand History of Pandemics
GreekClassical ChineseLatinArabicItalianKaqchikelSpanishEnglishRussianJapanese
Set, 1609–1962
Reaching Space
Imagining space and learning to live there, 1609–1962
Space Hotel Ltd
LatinEnglishRussian
Set, 880–1580
The Story of English
Everyday English from the Old English schoolroom to Shakespeare's farm
Old EnglishMiddle EnglishEarly Modern English
Set, 1520–1651
The Valley of Mexico
Tenochtitlan, the Mexica and their neighbors, about 1450 to 1600
Lost Settlement
SpanishItalianLatinClassical Nahuatl
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