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date: "2024-05-05T02:03:05Z"
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  - linkedin
description: "The author would time-travel to 250 BC to overlap with both Ashoka and Archimedes, inspired by a visualization that makes historical simultaneity feel vivid."
keywords: ["time travel", "250 BC", "Ashoka", "Archimedes", "history visualization", "Parallel Lives"]
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250 BC is when I'd pick to time-travel to. Ashoka was turning into one of the most famous emperors of India and Archimedes was growing into one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

Parallel Lives is a beautiful visualization by Jan Willem Tulp that shows who lived when, showing overlaps, and sized by their prevalence on Wikipedia. I'm a history fan and have spent several hours scrolling through the site:

https://janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-lives/

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7192705334568747008)