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The story of everything
From the origin of the universe to the present day. The great stories that shaped our world.
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Four collections, from the oldest to the most recent.
13.8 billion yearsUniverseFrom the Big Bang to today: stars, galaxies and the origin of the atoms we are made of.
4.54 billion yearsEarth and lifeThe birth of the planet, the rise of life and the great extinctions.
300,000 yearsHumanityFrom the first Homo sapiens in Africa to the world of today.
Thousands of yearsCivilizationsEgypt, the great empires and the cultures that shaped the world.
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The Entire History of Earth
If the whole history of the Earth fitted into a single day, the dinosaurs would arrive at 10:47 pm, the asteroid would strike at 11:39 pm, and we would appear with less than six seconds to go before midnight.
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The Entire History of Ancient Egypt
If the whole history of ancient Egypt were a river 3,000 kilometres long, with each kilometre one year, the Great Pyramid would stand at kilometre 540 and Cleopatra just before the sea. Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the workers who built the Great Pyramid.
The Entire History of Humanity
If the whole history of our species fitted into a single day, farming would arrive after eleven at night, and the pyramids, Rome, the printing press and the Moon landings would all fit into the last 22 minutes.
The Entire History of the Universe
If the whole history of the universe fitted into a single year, the Big Bang would happen on 1 January and all of recorded human history would fit into the last 11 seconds of 31 December.
History in perspective
Each Eones documentary tells a whole story in under an hour. To make a number like 13.8 billion years graspable, we turn it into something familiar: a year, a day, a river. And we tell it with scientific and historical sources, real images where they exist and recreations where nobody could ever take a photograph.
Open the Earth clockWhat one minute of each documentary covers
- Universe291 million years per minute
- Earth82 million years per minute
- Humanity5,880 years per minute
- Ancient Egypt55 years per minute
Logarithmic scale: each step multiplies by ten.
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