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This is a modern day picture of the Gate of Rhegion in current day Istanbul, with the worn down Byzantine inscriptions featured above.

Golden Gate, originally built by Theodosius II, now walled up.

Constantinople, Golden Gate at the beginning of the twentieth century, seen from the outside

Modern Photograph of the Golden Gate

Heraclius is fighting during the siege of 626. The Persians are seen fighting against the city of Constantonople

The Forum of The Bull is where public executions would take place.

Reconstruction from Fyodor Uspenski (1912)

This inscription above the Gate of Rhegion lasted through all of the damage sustained by the walls. The names of both Theodosius and Constantine can be seen in the inscription.

The only part of walls where walls and sea meet near Yenikapi (Theodosian Harbor)

This is a gorgon head that was a piece of spolia (reused stonework) that may have been part of the forum of Constatntine.