Three-dimensional reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia's Byzantine sanctuary
Reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia Sanctuary
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Inside the Hagia Sophia (video with special effects)
Justinian chose physicist Isidore of Miletus and mathematician Anthemius of Tralles as architects; Anthemius, however, died within the first year of the endeavor. The construction is described in the Byzantine historian Procopius' On Buildings (Peri ktismatōn, Latin: De aedificiis).