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I've been playing this nearly every day and sharing the results in my family's group chat. I've been to a lot of museums and I didn't realize how much information I wasn't retaining. No quiz once you exit I guess. Anthropeum really starts to train your brain to remember patterns, times, and locations. I often get stumped by whether something is Peruvian, African, or Native Islander. Always more to learn!

Very cool ! Would be nice to have some explanation after answers on the objects so that I learn something, but pretty addictive and nice UI!

This just became my new favorite daily game. The only thing I’d change is the time resolution: 1750-2000 should probably have the same number of divisions as 1000-3000 BC.

Someone turned me on to this recently, but mainly it ended up getting me back into Timeguessr. (I'm much better at Timeguessr.)

I love this! One of the wrong answers was because I mis-clicked the location. Another one had an inscription saying "1695" and I confidently picked that time bracket (was very wrong!).

Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026

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50,130 · top 90% of players today!

Heh, geoguesser for artifacts. Neat. The texts on the slider do seem a little close together. Could just be me.

it's great, even though i'm bad at it. "45,485 · top 95% of players today!" is such nice way of saying that:

Fun game. It does seem that the date score is much more forgiving than the location.

A yes, a gold lego piece. Wait, not Denmark?

What a beautiful game, props to the author.

That's really cool, I did really badly

This is awesome! Much more interesting visuals than Geoguessr

Wonderful - thank you to the creator! Requests, just in case you are reading:

* Make hints that prompt thinking and teach analysis (interesting!), not give answers (boring). For example, for the Inca ceramic depicting corn: 'The object depicts something familiar to you - where and when would that have been familiar to the people who made and used this?'; or for a silk painting, 'Where and when do you find these materials?'.

* Minor issue - The distance measurement is a bit unfair. Even if you figure out one is from (e.g.) China, getting the exact spot wrong is more costly than choosing the wrong spot in (e.g.) Italy because China is so much larger. I even placed the 'Ferry' fan on the Yangtze river, but it's a long river. Also, the map projection distorts distance.

Awesome, got ~25k, said top player! Im good at the geographical location but not so great in the time line, it was fun!

this is fun