{"id":56628,"date":"2024-07-26T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56628"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:14:04","slug":"a-virtual-tour-of-ancient-rome-in-full-color-just-as-it-was-in-its-heyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/26\/a-virtual-tour-of-ancient-rome-in-full-color-just-as-it-was-in-its-heyday\/","title":{"rendered":"A virtual tour of ancient Rome in full color, just as it was in its heyday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Rome, founded in 753 BC, was the capital of one of the greatest empires of the Ancient Age.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/22\/two-interesting-reports-that-explain-how-the-roman-aqueducts-worked\/\">Two interesting reports that explain how the Roman aqueducts worked<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/05\/this-was-a-city-of-ancient-rome-an-explained-walk-through-the-streets-of-pompeii\/\">This was a city of ancient Rome: an explained walk through the streets of Pompeii<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today its ruins still cause fascination, because they evoke how great and beautiful that city was<\/strong>, with great palaces, temples and monuments, and also its spectacular engineering works, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/22\/two-interesting-reports-that-explain-how-the-roman-aqueducts-worked\/\">the twelve aqueducts<\/a> that supplied water to this city. <strong>The passage of time, looting, wars and natural disasters have left us today a mere shadow of what Rome was.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@historyin3d\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History in 3D<\/a> published <strong>an interesting video reconstructing Rome as it was in 360 AD<\/strong>, 20 years before Emperor Theodosius I the Great (347-395) made Christianity the official religion of the Empire. <strong>The polychrome statues and the gold decorations on many buildings are striking<\/strong>, especially the temples:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ancient Rome in 3D - Detailed virtual reconstruction. Real colors. 2023 year progress.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EmMmuonCXbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some screenshots from this fascinating and detailed video:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53883625675_4413bb0162_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53883443803_139a57b7f3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53883541354_c5e5627f78_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53882305727_1f46e56caf_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Rome, founded in 753 BC, was the capital of one of the greatest empires of the Ancient Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10375,16885],"tags":[17326,10908],"class_list":["post-56628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-history","category-populations","tag-roman-empire","tag-rome"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 03:55:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}