Built in Saudi Arabia

HISTREE Walk through history.

Islamic history and the heritage of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf, side by side with the story of the world, in one connected walk through time.

In a VR headset’s browser (Meta Quest, Pico and others): open histree.net, choose Enter it in VR, then Enter VR.

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What it is

How HISTREE works.

  1. 01

    Move through time

    Go era by era, from Adam to the modern age. Each era opens as a 360-degree world you can look around.

  2. 02

    Enter the story

    Walk into the great moments as cinematic scenes, stop by stop, on a screen or in VR.

  3. 03

    Read and explore

    Open any entry for the full article and the work it was checked against. Our sources

From the first people to today

Six of 20 eras

  1. A new, empty earth at dawn: a lake in a green valley below the mountains

    The First People

    From Adam

  2. Lightning over reed huts and rising floodwater

    Nuh and the Flood

    Before 3500 BCE

  3. A city lit along a river at dusk

    9th-10th Centuries CE3rd-4th Centuries AH

    801-1000 CE

  4. A mud-brick fort on a desert ridge at dusk

    18th Century CE12th Century AH

    1701-1800 CE

  5. Factory chimneys trailing smoke above a brick mill

    19th Century CE13th Century AH

    1801-1900 CE

  6. A modern skyline of glass towers and a clock tower, beyond the sand

    The Modern Era

    1960 CE to today

Inside the stories

Step inside 26 stories.

The prophets, the First Saudi State and the building of the Great Pyramid, told scene by scene.

  • A dry path running through the parted sea between red cliffs
    The Story of MusaCrossing the Red Sea
  • A mountain standing above receding floodwater, a rainbow behind it
    The Story of NuhAfter the flood
  • The finished pyramid, cased in white limestone, at dawn
    Building the Great PyramidThe finished monument
  • A black stone cube rising among granite hills, cut blocks stacked beside it
    The Story of IbrahimBuilding the Ka’bah
  • Eleven stars in a line above the hills of Canaan at dusk
    The Story of YusufThe childhood dream

Who it is for

Who HISTREE is for.

At home

Families and learners

Explore it together at home, on a phone, a tablet or a computer.

Start reading For teaching

Schools, universities and ministries

On the classroom board, on learners’ own devices or in VR.

Work with us For exhibitions

Museums, embassies and cultural centres

On exhibition screens, in headsets and on visitors’ phones.

Work with us

Legacy Lines

Tell your own history on HISTREE.

The engine that tells the story of the world can tell yours, and place it inside the history around it.

A Legacy Line can follow

  • A nation
  • A city
  • A museum collection
  • A heritage site
  • An organisation
  • A major event · Saudi 2034, Expo 2030
  • In time, a family

Commission a Legacy Line

A walled mud-brick town with tall towers at golden hour, a road leading to it between palms
The First Saudi State: ad-Dirʿiyyah. A nation’s story, already on the timeline.

Get in touch

Contact us.

For your school, museum, collection or event, or a Legacy Line of your own, write to us.

info@histree.net

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

About

HISTREE is a Saudi company, founded and led by Houria Akram, who spent 11 years building education businesses in the UK.

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