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This is a digital recreation of the central street in the city of Ephesus lined with columns and shops. This is a similar structure to the central Mese in Constantinople. Note the use of color. Ancient cities were poly chromatic.

This is a digital recreation of the central street in the city of Epheses lined with columns and shops. This is a similar structure to the central Mese in Constantinople. Note the use of color. Ancient citys were poly chromatic

This is a recreation of what a view of the Augustaion, between the Great Palace and the church of Hagia Sophia would look like, as an artist imagines the emperor Justinian standing and gazing over them.

This is an image in the City of Epheses in Turkey today after it has been excavated and it has been digitally reconstructed in another image

A schema of the land walls, giving a cross-section of the wall so that you can see the three different levels and the moat between.

Restored section of the Theodosian Walls at the Selymbria Gate. The Outer Wall and the wall of the moat are visible, with a tower of the Inner Wall in the background.

The section of the Theodosian Walls that adjoins the walls of Blachernae, with the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus in the background, as they appear today in suburban Istanbul.

The remains of the arch of Theodosius have fallen into disrepair but you can still see the scale the monument once had. Imagine it completed!

This very basic map of Constantinople shows the distribution of Forums along the Mese.