104 pointsby bookofjoe5 hours ago22 comments
  • crystalPalacean hour ago
    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!
  • sosodev34 minutes ago
    I wonder how many people are using external resources when playing this. I have a hard time believing that the average lumps so far to the right of the score distribution unless this game is played exclusively by anthropologists haha.
    • yorwba11 minutes ago
      I scored above the median just getting the continent and millennium right. Admittedly I used knowledge about population density to pick the most likely spot, but that hardly makes me an anthropologist. I assume regular players will also pick up on patterns in where most artifacts are sourced from.
  • tobr15 minutes ago
    Looks like I should feel decent about my 72 083! Got a perfect 10k on two questions which surprised me.

    Fun game, but 10 objects felt a little much for a daily challenge I think.

  • aabhay15 minutes ago
    It’s funny how much of a “ChatGPT tell” that thin weight accent header is. Sol seems to place that on _everything_.
  • mortenjorck2 hours ago
    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.
  • pimlottc44 minutes ago
    The timeline is not readable on narrow desktop windows (e.g. when you have two windows tiled side-by-side, but not so narrow as to switch to the mobile layout). The labels for the years overlap each other so it's very hard to read.

    Fun game, though!

  • pattiluponean hour ago
    That was a lot of fun. Top 74%, woohoo!

    I should really get in the habit of playing this game and geoguesser.

  • damienmeuran hour ago
    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!
    • andaian hour ago
      It reveals a link to a page with more information, after you guess, and embeds an excerpt from that page, although they're a bit vague and general. Usually with a bit of scrolling I can find the part where it says what the thing actually is.
    • cyclopeanutopiaan hour ago
      > pretty addictive

      Is that good now? :(

      • damienmeuran hour ago
        This is 10min of attention of mine that didnt went into doom scrolling bulls*t on social medias, I guess it s positive :)
  • dodecacatan hour ago
    Wonderful game! mmooss & mortenjorck have good suggestions.
  • stevefolta3 hours ago
    Someone turned me on to this recently, but mainly it ended up getting me back into Timeguessr. (I'm much better at Timeguessr.)
  • bsoccer0043 hours ago
    Fun game. It does seem that the date score is much more forgiving than the location.
  • wsgeorge24 minutes ago
    Honestly surprised by this outcome. My geo estimates were way better than my period estimates.

    Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026

    64,056 · top 55% of players today!

  • world2vec3 hours ago
    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

    YYGYRRYGGY

    50,130 · top 90% of players today!

    • abound2 hours ago
      In this context, "top 90%" means "bottom 10%". I did truly awful and got "top 99%", which sounded impressive until I realized what happened.
      • pehejean hour ago
        Well.. awful compared to all others who definitely did not cheat right?
        • croemeran hour ago
          I didn't cheat and I'm in bottom 94%!
    • ireadmevsan hour ago
      Really fun! Feels great when your hunch pays off, but most of the time it didn’t. I’ll be certainly playing it more often! Joining the share here:

      Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026

      YYBGYYRGGB

      61,616 · top 66% of players today!

  • arikrahman3 hours ago
    Heh, geoguesser for artifacts. Neat. The texts on the slider do seem a little close together. Could just be me.
  • willguest2 hours ago
    it's great, even though i'm bad at it. "45,485 · top 95% of players today!" is such nice way of saying that:
  • mmooss2 hours ago
    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.

  • pwython3 hours ago
    A yes, a gold lego piece. Wait, not Denmark?
  • gagik_co3 hours ago
    This is awesome! Much more interesting visuals than Geoguessr
  • swiftcoder3 hours ago
    That's really cool, I did really badly
  • moralestapia2 hours ago
    What a beautiful game, props to the author.
  • tamimio3 hours ago
    Awesome, got ~25k, said top player! Im good at the geographical location but not so great in the time line, it was fun!
  • chidog993 hours ago
    this is fun