Google Earth Recreates Ancient Rome

thefickler writes "Google Earth now includes ancient Rome circa 320 AD, thanks to Google, the University of Virginia, and Past Perfect Productions working together to bring the historical city to life. Clicking on Ancient Rome in 3D, users can revisit Rome from a bygone era and view highly detailed reconstructions of 250 buildings, as well as 5,000 other lesser detailed buildings. 'Pop-up windows provide information on the monuments and visitors also can enter some of the most important sites, including the Senate and the Colosseum, to observe the architecture and marble decorations.'"

Comments

First Post!

[Lissajous]

Would that be Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian??

come on, why stop at Rome?

[Anonymous Coward]

At that time, there was another developed culture of similar size on Earth, although at that time Han China had already split into three kingdoms. There were also other civilized peoples with developed cities in the Middle East, India and Mexico. It would be interesting to see all of them on Google Earth.

Re:It's AD 320

[Crazy Taco]

As with all issues involving time, it's pretty bogus, anyway, so perhaps /. should just use CE (Common Era).

Nah, I think not. AD has been good enough for everyone for 1500 years (it was devised in AD 525), and I don't see any reason to give it up just for political correctness. There's enough politically correct garbage going on now as it is without adding dates to it.