Ancient Rome 3D
Ancient Rome 3D is a digital recreation of over 7,000 buildings during the reign of Constantine (circa 320 CE). The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory began developing Rome Reborn in 1997. This November, Google Earth published the largest, most comprehensive version of the project.
Ancient Rome 3D also links to other scholarly sources, including Stanford’s Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project. Carved on the walls of the Templum Pacis between 203-211 CE, the map of Rome includes extremely detailed floor plans of everything from public baths to apartments. It originally measured 60×43 feet but now exists only in fragments. Ten percent of the original artifact has survived.
Tags: 3D imaging, city plan, Forma Urbis Romae, Google maps, Rome