The closed hardcover standing upright on a cream surface with the chart pulled out behind it in a long accordion fold, the printed panels stepping back into the distance

Synchronological Chart - 6,000 Years of Bible & World History in One Fold-Out Hardcover

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The closed hardcover standing upright on a cream surface with the chart pulled out behind it in a long accordion fold, the printed panels stepping back into the distance
  • The closed hardcover standing upright on a cream surface with the chart pulled out behind it in a long accordion fold, the printed panels stepping back into the distance
  • Close view of the bound cover in deep teal cloth, with the chart's title stamped in gold foil across the front and a gilded edge on the boards
  • The chart opened to its full length along a wooden bench against a panelled wall, running the length of the room in one continuous band of printed panels
  • The hardcover standing on a table with the chart drawn partly out of it, one printed side lying flat and the next section still folded, showing both faces of the sheet
  • The chart draped across a dark wooden table, one long run of panels in view, with the printed columns, dates and small engravings legible across the surface
  • A mother and two children leaning over the chart spread across a table in a warm room, one child tracing a line with a finger
  • The closed hardcover standing upright on a cream surface with the chart pulled out behind it in a long accordion fold, the printed panels stepping back into the distance
  • Close view of the bound cover in deep teal cloth, with the chart's title stamped in gold foil across the front and a gilded edge on the boards
  • The chart opened to its full length along a wooden bench against a panelled wall, running the length of the room in one continuous band of printed panels
  • The hardcover standing on a table with the chart drawn partly out of it, one printed side lying flat and the next section still folded, showing both faces of the sheet
  • The chart draped across a dark wooden table, one long run of panels in view, with the printed columns, dates and small engravings legible across the surface
  • A mother and two children leaning over the chart spread across a table in a warm room, one child tracing a line with a finger
Synchronological Chart - 6,000 Years of Bible & World History in One Fold-Out Hardcover

Synchronological Chart - 6,000 Years of Bible & World History in One Fold-Out Hardcover

$24.98 $59.99
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1871 · 23 feet · printed both sides
Six thousand years, one wall
An 1871 schoolroom chart, restored and folded into a hardcover. Bible history and world history run side by side down every panel, so you can finally see what was happening everywhere at the same time.
23 feet unfolded
Two printed sides
Cloth-bound hardcover

The closed hardcover standing upright on a cream surface with the chart pulled out behind it in a long accordion fold, the printed panels stepping back into the distance
01   Why it lands
The one thing a timeline cannot do
A timeline gives you a single line. This gives you columns. Nations, empires and prophets run down the page at the same time, so the exile of Israel sits on the same horizontal as the founding of Rome. You stop memorising dates and start seeing a shape.
Centuries on one spread
A single opening carries hundreds of years. You read across the spread instead of flipping forward through a book.
Everyone at once
Assyria, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Israel each keep their own column, all pinned to the same row of years.
Engraved, not drawn
Hundreds of small wood engravings, cut before photography, so every panel has something worth stopping on.
Set for a wall
The type was sized to be read from a few feet back, which means two people can follow it at the same time.
02   Where it comes from
Drawn by a schoolteacher in 1871
The chart was made by an educator who wanted his students to see the whole of history at once, and it took him years of cross-checking to lay it out. It sold into schoolrooms and parlours across America, hung there for a generation, and then quietly went out of print.
A small sepia portrait of the chart's nineteenth-century author beside the open chart and its hardcover, with a brass magnifier and a globe on a dark table
This edition is that same sheet, restored panel by panel — the engravings cleaned, the colour brought back up, the lettering reset so it survives at modern print sizes.
Nothing was redrawn. The odd spellings, the 1870s borders and the confidence of a nineteenth-century engraver are all still on the page.
03   How it opens
Folded like a concertina, not bound like a book
The chart is not stitched into the spine. It folds into the boards, panel against panel, so the same object can sit on a shelf or run the length of a room.
FIRST
Lift the block out
The folded chart comes out of the cover as one solid block, and the first panel comes with it.
THEN
Walk it open
Every fold is scored, so it stands as you pull. Twenty-three feet of it, laid out end to end.
AFTER
Leave it standing
Open on a table it holds its own shape. Along a wall it wants nothing but two pins at the ends.
The chart opened to its full length along a wooden bench against a panelled wall, running from one end of the room to the other in one continuous band of printed panels
The full run, opened along a wall — the same panels you were just reading in miniature.
04   Close up
The part you notice second
From across a room it reads as a stripe of colour. Up close, every panel is dense with small engravings — a siege, a coronation, a ship under sail, a printing press — with the year running along the top and the parallel columns sitting underneath it.
The chart draped across a dark wooden table, one long run of panels in view, with the printed columns, dates and small engravings legible across the surface
A hand drawing the folded chart open panel by panel, the printed columns passing under the fingers
Opened one fold at a time, the way you actually read it.
05   Two sides
Printed on both faces, and no wasted paper
Both faces carry the timeline. That is how twenty-three feet fits into a cover you can hold under one arm — eleven and a half feet on each side, joined by a single fold rather than a seam.
The hardcover standing on a table with the chart drawn partly out of it, one printed side lying flat and the next section still folded, showing both faces of the sheet
Side one
The first half of the run, from the earliest dates the chart records forward.
Side two
The second half, carrying the same columns through to the 1870s.
One line
The fold where they meet is a hinge, not an ending. The years keep counting across it.
06   Where it ends up
It does not stay in the cover
Sunday school teachers prop it against a wall. Homeschool parents leave it open for a week and teach straight off it. Grandparents put it out at Christmas because it is the one thing in the house that starts a conversation instead of ending one.
A mother and two children leaning over the chart spread across a table in a warm room, one child tracing a line with a finger
On the table
One section at a time, the rest folded back. This is how it gets used on a weeknight.
A pastor standing in front of a congregation holding the chart open, one arm across a panel while he points at a date, rows of seated people watching
At the front of a room
Big enough that the back row can follow the pointer without a screen.
07   The reviews
What people did with it once it arrived
4.8
★★★★★
4.8 / 5 · 71 reviews
Rachel D. · Verified buyer
★★★★★
March 2026
I teach the fifth and sixth grade Sunday school class and I had run out of ways to make the kings of Israel stick. I opened this along the back wall and let them walk beside it. Two of them asked to stay in at break.
Gregory P. · Verified buyer
★★★★★
February 2026
I bought it expecting a poster in a box. It is heavier than that. The boards are properly built and the folds have held up through four full openings on my living room floor.
Anna-Lise M. · Verified buyer
★★★★☆
January 2026
Honest note: you need floor space. I tried it on the dining table first and had to fold half of it back. Once I cleared the hallway and ran it end to end, my kids spent an hour on it.
Daniel K. · Verified buyer
★★★★★
December 2025
Gave it to my father, who has taught history for thirty years and is impossible to impress. He found a printing error on one panel within ten minutes and then did not put it down all evening.
Marisol V. · Verified buyer
★★★★★
February 2026
We homeschool and I had been drawing timelines on butcher paper for years. This replaced all of them. The parallel columns are the whole point — my son spotted that the Exodus lines up with the Egyptian dynasties on his own.
Tom H. · Verified buyer
★★★★☆
January 2026
The lettering is small in places, which is the nature of a chart this dense. Bring a pair of reading glasses and it stops being a problem. Everything else about it is better than I expected.
6,000 years · 23 feet
Some things only make sense at full length.
A chapter at a time, history is a list of names. Laid out end to end across a floor, it becomes a thing you can walk beside — and the questions come on their own.

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