An expandable visual reference book of biblical lands, ancient maps, historical drawings, archaeology, city plans, timelines, and synchronological charts.
This is a growing visual reference volume. New maps, drawings, charts, city plans, archaeological diagrams, and historical illustrations can be added here as we find them.
Sebastian C. Adams, 1881. A roughly 23-foot-long synchronological timeline that places biblical history beside kingdoms, rulers, civilizations, and events from the wider world.
Adams follows the Ussher chronology. Dates and historical identifications should be read as Adams’ nineteenth-century chronological framework, not automatically as modern scholarly consensus.
Ancient borders changed over time. These are geographic approximations, not one-to-one modern national equivalents.
Using the ages given in the Masoretic/Hebrew text of Genesis 5, several early patriarchs' lifetimes overlap dramatically. This does not prove personal meetings, but it shows who could have been alive at the same time.
Striking implication: in this chronology Adam could have been alive during Enoch's first 308 years, Methuselah's first 243 years, and Lamech's first 56 years. That makes direct transmission of family memory possible within the chronology, though Genesis does not state that these men personally met.
Planned material can include Jerusalem and Temple plans, Tabernacle diagrams, Paul’s journeys, Exodus routes, ancient city reconstructions, archaeological drawings, manuscript-era geography, and other visual study aids.