Constantinople - 3D Timelapse - 680 BC to AD 1453 [8:34]

YouTube ^ | October 15, 2026 | How Cities Grew

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] This is an illustrative historical reconstruction: architectural details, scales and historical urban extents are approximate, and population figures are estimates. This one took a very long time to make. The scene was far too big for my own computer, so I spent several hundred dollars renting GPUs to render it. Thank you so much for watching! If you enjoyed it, a like and a subscribe would mean a lot to me. [/snip] 

Constantinople - 3D Timelapse - 680 BC to AD 1453 | 8:34 
How Cities Grew | 2.21K subscribers | 521,011 views | October 15, 2026

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: constantinople

[SunkenCiv]

Chapters 
0:00 Thracian coast and Greek Byzantion (680 BC) 
0:27 Byzantium under Rome 
0:47 Constantine's New Rome (324-330) 
1:32 Theodosian Walls and the earthquake of 447 
2:13 Age of Justinian: Hagia Sophia (532-537) 
2:58 Middle Byzantine city 
3:37 Fourth Crusade: the fires of 1203-1204 
4:01 Latin occupation (1204-1261) 
4:19 Palaiologan revival (1261) 
5:45 The siege of 1453 
7:27 Fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman era

[SunkenCiv]

This Constantinople is toylike compared with the one you posted:

• Evolution of Rome | Fixed-Camera Timelapse: The Colosseum Valley [10/24/2026]

[dayglored]

Fascinating, thanks!!

[george76]

Constantinople was occupied by the Western powers from 1918 to 1923. - a shame they did not return it to Greece..

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