See historic places as they once were

Bringing the Hunebed Builders Back to Life Across the province of Drenthe stand dozens of hunebeds, giant stone tombs older than the pyramids of Egypt. They are the oldest monuments in the Netherlands. But the people who raised them, the hunebed builders, and the world they lived in, vanished more than five thousand years ago. Today we are proud to announce a project that brings that world back. Together with the Hunebedcentrum in Borger, and with the support of the Cultuurfo

Imagine standing on the Acropolis in Ottoman times, in the year 1805 to be specific. It is the very spot where, in our Classical reconstruction, the Panathenaic procession once reached the Parthenon in its painted glory. Two thousand years later, that same ground tells a very different story. This is our newest TimeSpot, and it is now in the TimeLens app. Image: TimeLens reconstructions of the Parthenon in Classical and Ottoman times next to each other. A ruined Parthenon and

It is one of the most repeated stories about the Acropolis. After the Ottomans took Athens, so the tale goes, they turned the Erechtheion, the elegant temple guarded by the six Caryatids, into a harem for the garrison commander's wives. You will find it in guidebooks, in tour scripts and all over the web. There is just one problem. The evidence for it is remarkably thin. Image: TimeLens reconstruction of the Acropolis in Ottoman times as a Caryatid of the Erechtheion is being