Pinterest of the dayдоска «History»enWorldwide
Vivid Maps: History
The Vivid Maps history board: from the Fertile Crescent around 7500 BCE to twentieth-century Europe, with sections by era and more than 150 maps.
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Site of the dayredblobgames.comenWorldwide
Red Blob Games: algorithms you can poke at
Red Blob Games explains algorithms through game examples — A* pathfinding, hex grids, map generation from noise — with interactive diagrams you can drag and tweak.
Brazil of the daybrasilianaiconografica.art.brmixBrazil
Brasiliana Iconográfica: Brazil through artists' eyes
A virtual museum of images of Brazil from the 1500s to the 1920s: prints, watercolors, paintings, maps and scientific illustrations from four major Brazilian collections. In Portuguese.
Telegram of the day@VolcanoesEarthquakesAndMoreenWorldwide
Volcanoes, Earthquakes & more: live feed
An English-language feed pulling together official reports on M4.5+ earthquakes, volcanic ash and tsunami bulletins from USGS, volcano observatories, tsunami warning centres and VolcanoDiscovery.
Netherlands of the daytopotijdreis.nlmixNetherlands
Topotijdreis: 200 years of Dutch maps
A map of the Netherlands with a year slider, from Napoleonic-era surveys in 1815 to aerial photos of the 2020s. Watch sea turn into polder and villages into cities.
Türkiye of the daybyzantium1200.comenTürkiye
Byzantium 1200: Istanbul in the year 1200
Byzantium 1200 rebuilds Byzantine Constantinople in 3D: Hagia Sophia, the Great Palace, the Hippodrome with every known statue, and the city walls.
Pinterest of the dayдоска «Maps»mixWorldwide
Old European Maps from Europeana
Sixty antique maps gathered by Europeana from libraries and archives across Europe, from medieval Britain to Blaeu's atlases.
Site of the daymusicmap.infoenWorldwide
Musicmap: the family tree of pop music
Musicmap lays out popular music as one giant chart — from blues and gospel to techno and emo — on a timeline from the 1880s to the 2020s, showing what grew out of what.
Site of the dayitiner-e.orgenWorldwide
Itiner-e: every road in Rome's empire
The most detailed open atlas of Roman roads: an interactive map of the whole empire where you can plot a route like an ancient traveler. A research project that's free to explore.
Instagram of the day@brilliantmapsenWorldwide
Brilliant Maps: maps worth staring at
Brilliant Maps posts quirky thematic maps several times a day: Europe as the Vikings saw it, a clan map of Ireland, countries without passenger trains.
Instagram of the day@dailyoverviewenWorldwide
Daily Overview: Earth from satellite view
Daily Overview posts satellite images with exact coordinates: Brazilian dunes, central Rome, desert cities. Each frame looks like abstract art until you read the caption.
Mexico of the daycodicemendoza.inah.gob.mxmixMexico
The Codex Mendoza, Digitized
Mexico's national anthropology institute turned an Aztec codex into an interactive edition: zoomable pages, glyph explanations, transcriptions, maps and a timeline.