Ever wish you could visit ancient Rome? Well thanks to the Rome Reborn 1.0 project, you can .. at least virtually! A 3D digital model of ancient Rome circa June 21st, 320 A.D. was created by a collaboration of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, the UCLA Experimental Technology Center, the Reverse Engineering Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities of the University of Virginia.

According to the website, the purpose of the modeling project was to “spatialize and present information and theories about how the city looked at this moment in time”.

[Check it out via Kontrib]

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