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On Thursday 22 October 2026, we launched the eleven New Amsterdam TimeSpots in lower Manhattan with a New Amsterdam walking tour of the places featured in the app. More than a dozen members of the Guides Association of…
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At the heart of Domitian's Palace lies its great courtyard, the peristyle, a garden ringed on every side by a covered colonnade. TimeLens's 360° reconstruction of Domitian's peristyle garden covers both its entrance and…
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Beside the great dining hall of Domitian's Palace stand a pair of Roman fountain rooms, and TimeLens's reconstruction shows what they were for. These rooms exist for the hall next door: they are what made the emperor's…
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A few steps up from the great courtyard of Domitian's Palace lies Domitian's dining hall, known to the Romans as the Cenatio Iovis, the dining room of Jupiter, king of the gods. The name alone tells you what kind of…
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Update: the tour took place on 22 October. Read how it went in our New Amsterdam walking tour recap. New Amsterdam 1660 is now in TimeLens, and we are celebrating where it belongs: in New York City itself. Together with…
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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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