DELHI - 3D TIMELAPSE

Delhi was built in eight different places, and every old city is still hiding inside the new one. Watch the whole story, from a small fort around 1052 to a giant city of more than 30 million people, as a 3D timelapse. 0:00 Delhi in 15 seconds 0:15 Villages by the river 0:30 About 1052: Lal Kot, the first Delhi 0:45 Prithviraj's bigger city 0:51 1192: the sultans and the Qutb Minar 1:28 Siri, the second city 1:45 Tughlaqabad and Jahanpanah 1:56 Everyone must leave 2:21 Firozabad by the river 2:35 1398: Timur sacks Delhi 3:01 A city of tombs 3:17 Dinpanah and Sher Shah 3:29 Humayun's tomb 3:43 1639: Shah Jahan's city and the Red Fort 4:28 1739: Nader Shah 4:51 The British 5:03 1857: the uprising and the siege 5:45 1911: New Delhi 6:36 1947: freedom and partition 7:00 A giant city 7:58 Delhi today: a city tour 9:16 Then and now 9:28 The whole story in 20 seconds Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, public domain, except: gold coin of Muhammad bin Tughluq, Biswarup Ganguly (CC BY 3.0); Mughal rupee of Shah Jahan, Billjones94 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Terrain: Copernicus DEM. Music (in order of appearance): "Desert City" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Ritual" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Skeleton Keys" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Tabuk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Executioner" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Rise of Kingdoms" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "The Crown" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Mourning Melodies" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Whimsy Groove" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Adventure" from Old School RuneScape (Jagex). Created under Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules using assets from Age of Empires II. Not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.