Episode 1 · Credits

A Winter Evening in Constantinople, 537

Season one, Constantinople: A City Through Time. Every image and sound we did not make ourselves, with its author, licence and source.

Public domain and CC0

Free of copyright restrictions. Listed for transparency and to thank the institutions that share them.

• Gold solidus of Justinian I (527–565) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access · CC0 · metmuseum.org
• Amphora (late 4th–7th century) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access · CC0 · metmuseum.org
• Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory (2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access · CC0 · metmuseum.org
• Coin/pendant (4th century or earlier) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access · CC0 · metmuseum.org
• Glass vessel fragment (3rd–7th century CE) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access · CC0 · metmuseum.org
• Wooden writing tablets (500–700) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access · CC0 · metmuseum.org
• Mosaic tesserae (MET 2016.10.1.17 and 2016.11.1.50) The Met, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · one · two
• Balance weight formed as the bust of an empress (Theodosian period, 4th century) Cleveland Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · source
• Fragment with gold foil, from a furnishing fabric (4th–5th century) Cleveland Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · source
• Lamp and stand (400s, Early Byzantine, bronze) Cleveland Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · source
• Hagia Sophia at night (2016) Photo by Andrew Schwartz, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · source
• Cristoforo Buondelmonti, map of Constantinople (c. 1422, Düsseldorf copy) Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · source
• A Map of the Environs of Constantinople (upper sheet, early 1800s) Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · source
• The Bosphorus Strait splits the city of Istanbul (ISS Expedition 72, iss072e574770, 29 January 2025) NASA · Public domain · images.nasa.gov

Stock footage

• Embers Pixabay · Pixabay Content License · pixabay.com

AI-generated images and moving scenes

Everything not listed above is an AI-generated reconstruction, made by us for this episode. These are not historical photographs or artefacts.

• Moving scenes Google Flow (Veo 3.1 Lite) · labs.google
• Still images FLUX.2 [dev] via fal.ai

Audio

• Burning Fireplace, Crackling Fire Sounds (Aachen) visionear, Freesound · CC0 · freesound.org

Narration

• The narrator's voice Synthetic voice, Microsoft Azure neural voice. The script is researched from the sources listed under the video and read by a person before release.

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