Time Travel
Survival guides for visiting historical eras
A Time Traveler's Guide to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), 1500
It is around 1500 CE on the world's most isolated inhabited island. The quarry at Rano Raraku is active. The moai are being carved and moved. And the forest is disappearing.
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A Time Traveler's Guide to Aztec Tlatelolco, 1521
Tlatelolco in early 1521 is home to the largest market in the Americas, a gleaming pyramid, and a population that already knows something terrible is coming. Here is how to survive your visit.
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A Time Traveler's Guide to Carolingian Aachen, 800 AD
Charlemagne has built his dream city around a thermal spring in the middle of what is now western Germany. The Palatine Chapel is rising. Alcuin is lecturing. The food is tolerable. The politics will get you killed.
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A Time Traveler's Guide to Romanov St. Petersburg, 1900
Everything you need to know before visiting the Russian imperial capital in 1900: who runs it, what it costs, what kills you, and why you should go before the next five years destroy it.
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