We did not make all of this.
Here is who did.
The objects, photographs, footage and music on this site come from museums, archives and creators who made them free to use. Each one is listed below with its source and licence. Our own work (the Alcyone Secure owl, the Rashnova mark and the film edit) belongs to Alcyone Secure. The story of the name is on the About page.
FILM, SOUND AND TYPE
- Film score: “Ethnic Cinematic Trailer (Royalty Free Music)”NverAvetyanMusic · PixabayPixabay Content License
- Archive aviation footage: “Fifty Years of Aviation”, reel 1US Army Signal Corps · US National Archives, 111-TV-370, via Destockd / FedFlixPublic domain, a work of the US Government
- Persepolis columns, drawn from Eugène Flandin’s engravingEugène Flandin · Wikimedia CommonsPublic domain
- The eye through the slats: Julia Margaret Cameron, “Philip Stanhope Worsley”, 1866Julia Margaret Cameron · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
- Typefaces: Instrument Serif, Inter Tight, JetBrains Mono, Cinzel, Noto Nastaliq UrduTheir designers · Google FontsSIL Open Font License
OBJECTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Tablet impressed with seals, an administrative record · Achaemenid, about 500 BCEThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Cylinder seal and its impression · Achaemenid, 6th to 4th century BCEThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Cylinder seal and its impression · Achaemenid, 6th to 4th century BCEThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Stamp seal (scaraboid) and its impression · AchaemenidThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Relief: figure in a procession, Persepolis · Achaemenid, about 405 to 359 BCEThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Relief: two servants bearing food and drink, Persepolis · Achaemenid, about 358 to 338 BCEThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Balance scale · About 1845 to 1855The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Daric with king, the royal gold coin of Persia · AchaemenidThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Handled bowlThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Persian Travelogue: a diary of a journey · 1838The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Planispheric astrolabe · IranThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
Celestial globeThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
The Pleiades (M45). Alcyone is the brightest starNASA, ESA, AURA/Caltech, Palomar ObservatoryPublic domain
Taurus, from Urania’s Mirror · London, 1824Library of CongressPublic domain
Alexander Jamieson, Celestial Atlas, plate 14 · London, 1822Wikimedia CommonsPublic domain
Persepolis, an early photograph · 19th centuryThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain (CC0)
A flight data recorder, recovered from the Potomac River · February 2025National Transportation Safety BoardPublic domain