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Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)The Luzon StraitThe Red Sea cable corridorThe Strait of MalaccaAksumAlexandriaAntioch on the OrontesBerlinBirminghamBostonBukharaCanton (historical) — modern GuangzhouCarthageChang'anChicagoConstantinopleCórdobaDunhuangGoaHavanaIstanbulJerusalem (Old City)KashgarLisbonLiverpoolLondiniumMalacca (Melaka)ManausManchesterManilaMarseilleMecca (Makkah)MervMoscowNew OrleansNew York CityParisPotosíRio de JaneiroRomeSamarkandSevilleShanghaiTenochtitlanTokyoVladivostokXi'anAmboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridorKavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)Gulf StreamHumboldt (Peru–Chile) CurrentKuroshioBerlin MarathonBoston MarathonChicago MarathonLondon MarathonNew York City MarathonTokyo MarathonBasque (Euskara)MalagasyAustralian Institute of Marine ScienceArctic CouncilGreat Barrier Reef Marine Park AuthorityICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)International Telecommunication UnionIUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)Jet Propulsion LaboratoryUNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)Amboseli National ParkChobe National ParkEtosha National ParkHwange National ParkKruger National ParkMaasai Mara National ReserveNgorongoro Conservation AreaOkavango DeltaSerengeti National ParkEl Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)AcapulcoCherbourg — transatlantic roadsteadNew York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorageSouthampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)AnatoliaAntarcticaArctic OceanAssamCubaDarjeelingThe Fulda GapWestern Corridor and Grumeti ReservesLabrador SeaThe Moluccas (Maluku Islands)Ngorongoro Conservation Area — Western PlainsThe Pontic–Caspian steppeSouthern Serengeti Short-Grass PlainsSouth GeorgiaWeddell SeaYunnanZambezi RiverThe Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)Abu Simbel temples (Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae)Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ArrayAngkorArabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman (delisted 2007)Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)Baikonur CosmodromeThe Bornholmer Strasse crossingBorobudurBottaccione Gorge, GubbioBurgess Shale, Yoho National ParkBurj KhalifaLaunch Complex 41, Cape CanaveralCape Canaveral Space Force StationCape of Good HopeChallenger DeepChartres CathedralCheckpoint CharlieChengjiang fossil site, YunnanChichen ItzaChicxulub impact crater, YucatánChrist the Redeemer, Rio de JaneiroColosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), RomeCongo Square, New OrleansCosta Rica Thermal DomeCromford MillDenmark Strait SillDrake PassageDresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, PilbaraDSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication ComplexDurham CathedralEdiacara Hills, Flinders RangesEnewetak AtollFairview Lawn Cemetery, HalifaxFortune Head GSSP, NewfoundlandFrancevillian Basin, GabonGalápagos IslandsGalapagos RiftGare de l'Est, ParisGemini North telescope, MaunakeaGoldstone Deep Space Communications ComplexLaboratori Nazionali del Gran SassoGreat Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)Great Wall of ChinaGrytviken Whaling StationGuiana Space Centre, KourouHadrian's WallHagia Sophia, Constantinople / IstanbulHarland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, BelfastHattusa (Boğazkale)The Heart's Content cable stationHome Insurance Building, ChicagoThe Iron Bridge, CoalbrookdaleIsua supracrustal belt, southwest GreenlandKamioka Observatory, Mozumi mineJohn F. 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Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

242 objects on Earth · 37 on another body · This reading plate draws no coastline — the graticule and the marks carry the record here; the interactive view draws the sourced Natural Earth outline. Select a mark to read its record.
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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

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Aksum

Capital of the Aksumite kingdom in the northern Ethiopian highlands, commanding the trade between the Red Sea port of Adulis and the African interior.

14.1, 38.7 · approximate · c. 1st century CE - present

On the world

  • A place in: How Belief Travelled · 8 places

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

Connections

  • state adopted Christianity — Ezana's fourth-century adoption is visible in the coinage rather than only in later narrative, making Aksum the best materially attested early state adoption in this package.
  • node on Indian Ocean maritime trade network — Aksum's wealth and its exposure to Christianity both came through Red Sea shipping via Adulis — the religion arrived on the trade route, not ahead of an army.
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865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

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In focus · 31

Outside the current lens or window · 211

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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