ANCIENT NERDS

RESEARCH PLATFORM

Explore the ancient world through data, maps, and AI

750K+
Sites
90+
Countries
30+
Empires
20+
Sources
EXPLORE THE GLOBE
Interactive 3D globe with country coloring
Satellite view Southeast Asia multi-source view

Hundreds of thousands of archaeological sites rendered on a WebGL globe. Rotate, zoom from orbit to street level, switch between satellite and dark mode.

By age, country, category, or data source. Narrow down from 5,000 BC and older to present across 90+ countries and 49 site types.

Filter sites by age
Filter by source Filter by category Filter by country
Roman Empire overlay on the globe

30+ historical empires with animated timeline controls. Roman, Byzantine, Mongol, Inca, and more.

Byzantine and Sassanid Empires Inca Empire Old Kingdom Egypt empire detail
Site popup with photos, 3D, maps
3D photogrammetry Photo gallery Multi-source site detail

Photos, 3D photogrammetry, historical maps, artifacts, texts, and myths. Cross-referenced across multiple databases.

Lyra Whiskerbyte

Your AI archaeology companion. Ask about any site, period, or region. Powered by vector search across the entire database.

CHAT WITH LYRA
Lyra AI chat in action

AI-curated discoveries from top YouTube channels. Summaries, site links, and video timestamps.

News Feed page News filters and tags VIEW NEWS

Track newly mentioned sites from video content. 749K+ known sites cross-referenced in real-time.

Radar discovery map Radar site cards OPEN RADAR

RESEARCH TOOLS

Search tool

Search

Find any site by name

Proximity tool

Proximity

What's near you?

Measure tool

Measure

Distance between sites

Map layers tool

Map Layers

Rivers, reefs, glaciers, tectonic plates

Paleoshoreline tool

Paleoshoreline

Ice age coastlines

Offline Data Manager

Offline Mode

Field-ready PWA

AI-generated deep dives into the week's biggest archaeological discoveries. Sourced, cited, and illustrated.

READ ARTICLES
Weekly archaeology article

20+ CURATED DATA SOURCES

Aggregating the world's archaeological databases into one unified platform.

Database audit with 5,013 sites 24 data sources filter panel
Ancient Nerds OpenStreetMap Wikidata Pleiades UNESCO Megalithic Portal DARE Arachne Open Context GeoNames EAMENA tDAR Ariadne PastMap Heritage Gateway INAH AustArch SAHI Pelagios Livius Nabataea MegaJ ROMAQ Canmore

Full read-only REST API for developers. Search sites, query sources, fetch news, and get stats. Interactive explorer with live requests and syntax-highlighted responses.

EXPLORE THE API
API explorer with parameter inputs and execute button API response with syntax-highlighted JSON

Martin from Germany and Matt from Australia. We've spent years chasing megalithic mysteries and questioning the mainstream narrative of our ancient past.

Polygonal masonry that defies explanation. Precision stonework attributed to "copper chisels." Sites that rewrite timelines. This platform exists because we got tired of scattered data and wanted one place to map it all.

Peru Bolivia Easter Island Chile Mexico Yucatán Egypt Bosnia Türkiye Guatemala Malta
Martin and Matt at Ek Balam, Yucatan

Polygonal masonry that defies explanation. Precision stonework attributed to "copper chisels." Sites that rewrite timelines. This platform exists because we got tired of scattered data and wanted one place to map it all.

Peru Bolivia Easter Island Chile Mexico Yucatán Egypt Bosnia Türkiye Guatemala Malta

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A small but growing community of nerds who love ancient history. Share cool finds, geek out over maps, and help us build this thing.

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