Episode 3 · Credits

Fall Asleep to the Basilica Cistern, Constantinople, 6th Century

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

Photographs under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

Used under the licence named for each. No changes beyond cropping, scaling and slow camera movement.

• The Basilica Cistern today Photo by Matthias Süßen · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
• The Basilica Cistern after restoration Photo by Nan Palmero · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
• The Aqueduct of Valens today (Bozdoğan Su Kemeri) Photo by Mister No · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
• The Theodosian Walls Photo by Alexandru Panoiu from Bucharest, Romania · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Public domain

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

• The Mevlevihane Gate, photo by Sébah & Joaillier, in H. Barth, Constantinople (1913) Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · source
• Istanbul, the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus from the ISS (Expedition 65, iss065e001923, 22 April 2021) NASA · Public domain · images.nasa.gov

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 in the opening minutes Google Flow (Veo 3.1 Lite), from starting frames made with Nano Banana 2.1 · labs.google
• Still images throughout the episode Nano Banana 2.1 in Google Flow

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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