Rome Reborn 2.1

Rome Reborn is an international initiative to use 3D digital technology to illustrate the urban development of the ancient city from the first settlements in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 BCE) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (ca. 552 CE). Thus far, the Rome Reborn team has concentrated on modeling the city as it might have appeared in 320 CE when it reached the peak of its development with a population estimated to be ca. 1 million people occupying ca. 25 sq. km. of space inside the late-antique walls and using ca. 7,000 buildings.

An interactive earlier version of this model, called Rome Reborn 1.0 (9 million polygons) has been available at no cost since 2008 in the Gallery of Google Earth, where it is called "Ancient Rome 3D." This present version (October 2010) is called Rome Reborn 2.1. It has over 650 million polygons and still a work in progress. Before being released to the public as an interactive product capable of being explored in real time over the Internet, we need to review and correct the model archaeologically; and find a suitable technology platform for making such a massive model available to Internet users. Work is underway to address both issues.

Meanwhile, we offer this video exploration of the model, which we hope will already be found useful by students and teachers of ancient Roman topography and by the general public.

This video is copyright 2010 by Bernard Frischer. All rights reserved. The 3D models comprising Rome Reborn 2.1 are copyright: 2007 by The Regents of the University of California; 2007 by the CNRS, Bordeaux; 2009 by the Universite' de Caen; and 2010 by Frischer Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved. For additional credits, please see the end of the video.

For more about this project, see: www.romereborn.virginia.edu.

For further information about this video, please write or call the project director, Prof. Bernard Frischer at:

cell: +1.310.266.0183
email: bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com
personal webpage: www.frischerconsulting.com/frischer

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• Rome Reborn
• ancient Rome
• virtual Rome
• 3D Rome
• Circus Maximus
• Tiber
• Septizodium
• Arch of Constantine
• Meta Sudans
• Colossus
• Colosseum
• Flavian Amphitheater
• Temple of Venus and Rome
• Roman Forum
• Marsyas
• Ficus Olea Vitis
• Forum of Julius Caesar
• Forum of Augustus
• Forum of Nerva
• Forum of Vespasian
• Temple of Peace
• Theater of Pompey educational

[Frischer1949]

Please contact me about downloading. --Prof. Bernard Frischer, Project Director, Rome Reborn. E-mail: frischer@virginia.edu

[Frischer1949]

The music on the video is "Long Past Gone" by Jamie Sieber. It was licensed from Magntune.

[todorius]

Ah, Rome. The greatest city in the world. I would give anything to wander through the streets of Rome on a nice summer day in AD 320. All these great monumental buildings of antiquity are lost forever, what a shame.

[Marlik48]

They should build it again

[Peterincan]

Anyone know if this is available for download? Not the Google earth one though.

[MajnaPelikan]

Lets cover all the buildings with textures and we can play Assassins Creed in ancient Rome!!!

[Guaporense1]

In 320 ad rome was already in full decline. The city reached it's peak prosperity was about 200 years earlier. They chose to make it in 320 ad because it had accumulated all it's greatest architectural marvels by that point (which is a sign of decline since it means lack of further building).

[CommanderDuranda]

@Frischer1949 Thank you very much!

[CommanderDuranda]

What's the name of the music?

[Catel1]

And now you discover that the clean, proper city you saw on images and Hollywood movies was actually some kind of Ankh-Morpork.

[hohlenuss100]

was geht gse schüler dieses video is so cool^^

[ArcheoRexo]

@NightElfHunterAlf Bocouse the one who will try to do that must recreate the society that was there, which icludes slavery, restrictid civil rights,no human rights and constant warfare. Its fine with me, i see the romans prosper under such influence, but i thing some people would have a problems with. Would not like. And on the second thought dont recreate 320AD, it would be better in 160 AD, with minimal scourge of christianity.