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An image from the 411 Agatha Christie suite at the Pera Palace Hotel--this is the desk in the room.
A still image of the room 411 Agatha Christie suite in the Pera Palace hotel.
A map showing where the Great Palace once stood, the Hagia Sophia, and where the Basilica Cistern would be
A map from 1922 of Istanbul, Turkey.
A rendering of the Great Palace of Constantinople, one of the sites the the Basilica Cistern provided water to during Byzantium times
An engraving of the Basilica Cistern by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, from his “A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture”
A mysterious Medusa head pays homage to Greek mythology within the cistern.
A view of the Valens Aqueduct from the 1990s.
A woodcut showing the aftermath of the 1509 earthquake of Constantinople.
The aqueduct depicted in painting by British artist W. H. Bartlett.