[alexkearns]

I have long been fascinated by timeline designs. So this is right up my street. So impressive what these artists of old managed to create without access to computers and design software.

For more modern timeline visualisations, you might be interested in this list of timeline designs I compiled:

https://www.tiki-toki.com/blog/entry/ten-amazing-online-time...

[jamessb]

For timelines, the book "Cartographies of Time" [0] has lots of historical examples.

There is also a recent presentation of the design space of timelines in "Timelines Revisited: A Design Space and Considerations for Expressive Storytelling" [1, 2]. This then developed into the Timeline Storyteller tool [3].

[0]: https://papress.com/products/cartographies-of-time

[1]: https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/preprint.pdf

[2]: https://timelinesrevisited.github.io/

[3]: https://timelinestoryteller.com/