An interactive 3D timeline
A live visualization of scholarly positions on when major texts were composed and first attested. Drag to orbit the scene, scroll to zoom, and press D to toggle the depth axis.
A free, open home for the study of the Bible & the ancient world
A herbarium for ancient texts.
Codexarium gathers the research behind the study of the Bible and ancient south-west Asia into one open place — where scholars’ findings are kept safe, organized so they can be compared, and opened up for anyone to explore.
Think of it as a herbarium — for texts
A herbarium is a place where botanists store plant specimens. Anyone can contribute one; it is kept safe, labeled to a shared standard, and its label always carries the name of the person who collected it — no matter how many times it is studied later. Codexarium does the same for ancient texts.
Keeps the original safe
Whatever a researcher contributes is stored exactly as given and never changed. A tidy, organized copy is added alongside it — the original itself is never edited.
Lets findings be compared
Each contribution is normalized into shared schemas, so material from many researchers can finally be searched and compared side by side.
Gives lasting credit
Every time someone builds on a contribution, the person who originally collected it is credited — and that credit travels with the work for good.
Stays free for everyone
Anyone can read it, query it, and contribute to it at no cost. The data, and the tools that run on it, are open to all.
What’s here now
Data-derived wall charts
Posters drawn directly from the project’s datasets — printed on archival paper for a wall. Non-profit: proceeds support the open commons.
The open platform underneath these is in active development.