This doesn’t have much to do with social media, but I just love Google Earth, and now Google has put ancient Rome online. That’s right. You can now walk the streets of ancient Rome and see the Colosseum in all its glory. Amazing.
From the Wired blog:
The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in conjunction with the Rome Reborn Project 2.0 at University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. It is directed by Bernard Frischer,
who started version 1.0 of Rome Reborn at UCLA in 1996. The purpose of
the project is to depict a moment in time in Ancient Roman history,
specifically June 21, 320 A.D., which was more or less the apex of the
city’s development as the capital of the Roman Empire.Google Earth 4.3 (beta)
can be downloaded for the PC, Mac or Linux. The Ancient Rome 3D layer
can be found under Galleries in the Navigating Toolbar. For a video
demonstration of Ancient Rome 3D, see the video embedded below, or
click this link.
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