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.
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