Codex Sinaiticus
Preserved in the monastery at Mt. Sinai, and discovered there by Tischendorf in 1859.
The facts
| Dates | AD 331 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
Codex Sinaiticus falls 4335 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
Counting rods and the Roman abacusAD 150Maya civilizationAD 300 – AD 1300Wu Hu Period (take out tea) Buddhism prospersAD 304 – AD 439Council of Nicea, first ecumenical council of the Christian churchAD 325The birth of Muhammad, prophet of IslamAD 570The Hegira, Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to MedinaAD 622The invention of thmechanical clockAD 725The establishment of the Holy Roman EmpireAD 800
Now see where it sits
Everything on this page has a place on one 45×37″ chart — and once you can see what came before and after it, it stops being a fact and starts being a story you can follow.