Ancient city of Pompeii added to Google Street View

BBC ^ | Friday, December 4, 2009 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city.

Italy's culture ministry says it hopes the move will boost tourism to the site, state news agency Ansa reports.

Among the ruins visible on the search engine's free mapping service are the town's statues, temples and theatres.

The city was buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 and was not discovered until the 18th Century.

The volcanic debris preserved many of the city's buildings, frescos, silverware, mosaics and other artefacts.

"Giving people a chance to take a virtual stroll through Pompeii will give an extraordinary boost to Italian tourism," Ansa quoted Mario Resca of the culture ministry's heritage promotion department as saying.

The Google Maps service, launched in 2007, provides panoramic street-level views of more than 100 cities around the world.

It also includes the ancient heritage site of Stonehenge.

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[Tax-chick]

Neat! My sons will want to see this.

[steelyourfaith]

Hmmm ... no link at the source. I’ll want to check this website out. Fascinating place to visit. Thanks SC.

[PghBaldy]

THANK YOU. Very interesting. Here’s something (have no clue what it is, but it is excavated ruins there- brick walls etc) http://maps.google.com/maps?q=pompei&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DKUS&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Pompei+NA,+Italy&gl=us&ei=I84ZS7aUG8WKlQf5_rm6BA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA

[GSP.FAN]

I love the 360 view i have spent a lot of time time just studying this one..

http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_giovanni/vr_tour/index-it.html

[SunkenCiv]

Excellent, many thanks! This link was derived from yours; zoomed it out a little and moved around a bit. Shows "Massa di Somma" which is the prehistoric cone of Vesuvius (if memory serves, I may have that backwards), along with the Roman-era sites Ercolano (Herculaneum was the Roman name, and the modern town readopted it), Boscoreale (dunno the Roman-era name), Stabia (Roman Stabiae), as well as Pompei. :')

• Pompei

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

[nutmeg]

Cool... thanks so much for this thread, SunkenCiv!

Pompeii... one of the most fascinating places I've visited on earth.

Ping to a few FRiends who may also be interested...

[spyone]

That’s great...thanks...are there other 360’s in Rome that you know of?

[SunkenCiv]

thanks again for this:

[Teflonic]

Thorncrown Chapel is pretty spectacular as well in this 360: http://host.newspin360.net/thorncrown/pano.html

[GSP.FAN]

Check SunkenCiv posts..

[Fred Nerks]

I had forgotten...one of the images I lost when my comp had a catastrophe...nice to see it once again.

[JoeProBono]

[SunkenCiv]

a few other topics probably of interest to all who liked this one:

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  More on the Discovered Roman Literature being unearthed.
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites
• Latin Course Stage 6 (Pompeii Slave Girl)
• Move Over, Pompeii
• Pompeii Pottery May Rewrite History
• Pompeii's Burial Not Its First Disaster
• Archaeologists offer tastes of Pompeii
• Archaeologists Unveil Pompeii Treasure
• Villa Buried By Pompeii Eruption Is Unearthed
• Italians Dig Deep to Reveal Forgotten Roman City
• First Pompeii Uncovered (3rd Century BC)
• Ground Rises Near Ancient Italian Volcano
• Ancient tannery in Pompeii to undergo restoration this year
• In search of Western civilisation's lost classics (Herculaneum)
• Beyond Pompeii: Places swallowed by Vesuvius
• Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Eruption [ garum / liquamen]
• Pompeii Family's Final Hours Reconstructed
• ISIS Examines Origins Of Pompeii-Style Artifacts
• Digital images reveal the secrets of Roman painting
• UK to 'unroll' papyrus scrolls buried by Vesuvius [Kentucky prof has non-invasive scanning technique
• Digging deeper: Archaeologists race to show Pompeii daily life
• UQ archaeology digs into the life behind Pompeii [latrines]

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Glad I could help. :’)