Around midway through the fifth century, a Greek named Herodotus, started getting curious about the origins of The Great War which had played out decades earlier between the Greeks and the Persians.
"'Herodotus ‘goes through in detail towns of men both small and great alike: for of the places that were once great, most have now become small, while those that were great in my time were small before’" (Hestia, n.d.)
Using the "medium of his age - writing" (Hestia, n.d.), Herodotus records the histories of the world around him.
Hestia, using the medium of our age - digital technology - records and documents the histories of Herodotus through "web-mapping technologies such as GIS, Google Earth and Narrative TimeMap to investigate the cultural geography of the ancient world" (Hestia, n.d.). Having gathered a team of researchers from Classical Studies, Geography and Digital Humanities backgrounds, the results are a geographical web of timelines.
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