@dx Dang, do we really know where anything happened? It feels like in every Wikipedia article about a great battle from history, there's a long debate about where exactly it took place.

I have similar concerns about exact timing. Unless it coincided with an astronomical event like an eclipse, timing anything also seems challenging.

For something I cared about enough, maybe it would be worth the risk of trying the most likely time+place, even if there's a significant chance of getting nothing.

@dx how is time travel tethered to planetary locations? I’m probably getting a picture of outer space because nobody can solve a 3 body problem.

I guess it’s solved for this question, so: I’d probably try to get a snap of dinosaurs

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The precise origin of Deez could be fascinating, but that's a nonstarter if i have to provide the exact time and place. Ditto for the exact configuration of the Last Supper.

The crucifixion of Jesus in Golgotha around 33 AD is a lil easier to pin down but still difficult to get an exact date and time.

Instead, since so much of it did not survive, give me a wide lens aerial view of the Kushite kingdom in 2000 BC or so, in what would now be northern Sudan or southern Egypt. We know so much about Egypt, but not nearly as much about their southern neighbors who they mention extensively. Less concern about exact date and time this way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

@dx this is probably the inspiration for your question, but this book from Stephen Baxter explores lots of possibilities from it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days

knowing we all would soon have access to every secret of the past I think I'd try to swipe a photo of the first time my parents met each other, or the first time I met my wife.