Credits

Credits and sources

Everything on this site is either drawn in code, made by us, or a public-domain archive picture. There are no AI pictures on this site.

Archive pictures

  • Vienna Dioscorides, Cod. med. gr. 1 (c. AD 512), the Konion (hemlock) page

    Austrian National Library, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · source

    Used: Door view (PHARMAKON), cropped

  • Description de l’Égypte, Antiquités vol. V, pl. 11: view of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid from the south-east (Panckoucke edition)

    Commission des sciences et arts d’Égypte; scan David Rumsey Map Collection / Internet Archive, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · source

    Used: Door view (PYRAMIDS), cropped

  • Gustave Le Gray, An Effect of the Sun, Normandy (1856), albumen print

    Cleveland Museum of Art 1987.54, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · source

    Used: Door view (ATLANTIS), cropped; ATLANTIS page

  • Plato, Critias, Paris gr. 1807, from H. Omont’s facsimile (Paris, 1908)

    via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

    Used: The method; ATLANTIS page

  • Félix Bonfils, The Sphinx and the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure (c. 1867), albumen print

    via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

    Used: PYRAMIDS page

  • W. M. F. Petrie, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883), p. 84

    Cornell University Library copy, Internet Archive · Public domain

    Used: PYRAMIDS page

  • J. S. Perring, Pyramid of Abou Roash: plan, sections and excavation, in H. Vyse, Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh, vol. 3 (London, 1842)

    Internet Archive · Public domain

    Used: PYRAMIDS page

  • F. E. Köhler, Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887)

    via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

    Used: PHARMAKON page

Quotations

  • Plato, Timaeus and Critias, translated by R. G. Bury (1929)

    Public domain

  • Herodotus, Histories 2.123, translated by A. D. Godley (1920)

    Public domain

  • Dioscorides, De materia medica 4.64.3 (on poppy juice)

    As quoted in the PHARMAKON series

Drawn in code

The door, the brass line, the light, the dust, the floor, the paper, the labels, the thread and every icon are drawn by this site’s own code (WebGL, SVG and CSS). The 3D scene uses three.js (MIT licence).

Sound

  • The channel ident and outro

    Music: original composition (own synthesis). Voice: Oliver, made with ElevenLabs.

  • Background music: Page, Stone, Water

    Instrumental, made with ElevenLabs Music for this site.

Type

Newsreader (Production Type), Gelasio (Eben Sorkin) and IBM Plex Mono (IBM), all under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site.

Privacy

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