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New Amsterdam 1660 is now in TimeLens, and we are celebrating where it belongs: in New York City itself. Together with the New Amsterdam History Center, we are hosting a New Amsterdam walking tour through lower…
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A new city, and a new partnership. TimeLens is in Rome. Together with Learning Sites Inc, we are bringing Domitian's Palace on the Palatine Hill into the app. It is our first step into Rome, and a remarkable place to…
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Of all the rooms in Domitian's Palace, none was built to impress quite like the Aula Regia, the royal hall and Domitian's throne room. TimeLens's 360° reconstruction places you inside it, at about 30 by 40 metres, with…
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On the Palatine Hill in Rome stands the ruin of one of the ancient world's grandest buildings: the official palace of the emperor Domitian. With TimeLens, visitors can stand at fixed points among these ruins and see the…
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A single capstone on a Dutch hunebed can weigh as much as twenty tonnes. The people who lifted it had no machines, no metal tools and no wheels. So how on earth did they do it? For centuries the answer seemed so…
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There is a spot on the south slope of the Acropolis, still open to visitors today, where you would once have seen nothing at all. Just a long, curving wall of pale stone. No columns, no sculpture, not a single doorway.…
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Beneath the most sacred room Solomon ever built lies a single piece of bare rock. It has sat at the centre of this hill for thousands of years, and across roughly three thousand of them, tradition holds that four…
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Imagine standing in Drenthe five thousand years ago. Around you lies not empty heath but fields of ripening wheat, timber farmhouses, smoke rising from cooking fires, and children minding the goats. These were the…
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A while ago we shared our collaboration between Hunebedcentrum and TimeLens. Now the first scene has fully come to life. To see the full scene, you will need to visit the museum next year, but we happily share a sneak…
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How can anyone know what a city looked like four hundred years ago, when almost every building is gone? For New Amsterdam, the answer is a single remarkable document: a map called the Castello Plan, drawn in 1660. It is…
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At the entrance to Solomon's Temple stood two enormous bronze pillars, each around nine and a half metres tall, crowned with ornamented capitals rising several metres more. They are named, individually, in the old…
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Almost everyone in the world will know Wall Street in NYC, but why does this famous street have this name? Why is Wall Street called Wall Street? This question is rather easy to answer if you imagine standing at the…
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