Posted on 11/12/2008 7:20:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The glory that was Rome is to rise again. Visitors will once more be able to visit the Colosseum and the Forum of Rome as they were in 320 AD, this time on a computer screen in 3D.
The realisation of the ancient city in Google Earth lets viewers stand in the centre of the Colosseum, trace the footsteps of the gladiators in the Ludus Magnus and fly under the Arch of Constantine.
The computer model, a collection of more than 6,700 buildings, depicts Rome in the year 320 AD. Then, under the emperor Constantine I, the city boasted more than a million inhabitants –- making it the largest metropolis in the world. It was not until Victorian London that another city surpassed it.
The project has been developed by Google in collaboration with the Rome Reborn Project and Past Perfect Productions. The computer graphics are based on a physical model – the Plastico di Roma Antica, which was created by archaeologists and model-makers between 1933 and 1974 and is housed in the Museum of Roman Civilisation in Rome. There are only 300 original ruins still standing today.
(Excerpt) Read more at technology.timesonline.co.uk ...
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You’re welcome. That was so fast, I missed the “meep, meep!” ;’)
Very cool!
What would be interesting would be the option in google maps to pick a year ... and then the poltical map borders change to fit the year.
and, of course, Plate Tectonics.
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Why the year 320? The city may have been at a population peak, but all of its major architecture was already 200 years old, except for Caracella’s Baths, which were 100 years old. Of course within a few years, as first Constantinople was established, and then the western capital moved to northern Italy, Rome went into a rapid decline, which was accelerated by the sacking of the city first by the Visigoths, then by the Vandals.
Bloody Romans. What have they ever done for us?
Hope Hussein doesn’t get any ideas with Washington...
been playing around with their kinda new “street view” feature. just unreal, give it a try if you haven’t already it is really something.
can’t seem to get rid of the ancient buildings now after I installed it.
Thanks
I love that scene.
Yes. I'd rather look at 320 BC, or the port of Cosa around 100 BC. Better still I'd like to dig up even a partial Etruscan-Latin dictionary!
“That’s easy — orgies, wine, and bulemia.” — Charlie Harper
It found it a monitor of glass, and left it a monitor of marble.
A 3rd century emperor, one of my favorites, one of the more able ones, assassinated of course by a corrupt official in his own staff, built the circuit walls which probably helped the population rise behind their shelter. One persistent trouble that the great buildings had in the city was the plundering of building stone, usually at night, such that occasionally emperors would have to make proclamations outlawing the practice. Clearly, ancient Rome needed more urban renewal, among other things, to spread out the population into new, engineered neighborhoods (i.e., not unlike parts of Ostia).
Aurelian Walls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian_Walls
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