How did Byzantium look before it became Constantinople?

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The city of Constantinople, the new Rome, Nova Roma, is besides the old Rome, one of the most fascinating cities of antiquity and the middle ages. Seldomly did a city exert such a fascination onto the minds of people, as the mighty fortified city on the Bosphorus did. I already talked about Constantinople in two separate videos, in one I analyzed the appearance of the city around the year AD 540, and in another one, I compared it to the old Rome. But what about the city before Constantine made it his new capital. How did the city actually look before it became the new Christian capital of first the Roman Empire, and later after the West fell, of the Eastern Roman Empire? How did the city look when it was still called Byzantium, so before AD 330?