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Ancient Rome in 3D on Google Earth

By Lee Davis • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Teaching and learning

Google have recently announced their latest layer on Google Earth.  Under the Gallery option you can now add an Ancient Rome layer which displays more than 6000 buildings from 320 AD.

In collaboration with the Rome Reborn project, based at the University of Virginia, Google have provided some extraordinary detail on buildings such as the Basilica Julia, the Temple of Vesta and, of course, the Colosseum.

See more details and download the whole program here.

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