Ancient Rome — Reborn — thanks to virtual reality

Ever wish you could travel back in time to see ancient Rome? Thanks to Rome Reborn® you can!
Learn more about the architecture seen in this video visit:

Arch of Constantine

Arch of Titus

Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

Roman Forum

Imperial Fora

Forum and column of Trajan

Pantheon

Colosseum

To learn more about Rome Reborn, visit

Speakers: Dr. Bernie Frischer and Dr. Steven Zucker

[mbkennedy]

0:16 Circus Flaminius
0:20 Theatre of Marcellus
0:22 Capitoline Hill
0:28 Circus Maximus
0:40 Palatine Hill (Imperial Palace)
0:48 obelisk from Egypt
1:07 Circus Maximus (imperial box)
1:07 Circus Maximus (temple dedicated to the sun god)
1:16 imperial palace
1:19 triumphal arch dedicated to Titus on his victory over Judea
1:43 Baths of Caracalla
1:51 Claudian Aqueduct
2:06 Temple of the Divine Claudius (Nero's "Golden House")
2:40 Baths of Trajan
2:46 Baths of Titus
2:48 Arch of Constantine
2:53 Meta Sudans (fountain)
2:58 The Colosseum (Flavian Ampitheater)
3:07 colossal scuplture of the sun god
3:20 Arch of Titus
3:23 Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
3:31 Imperial Palace (Palatine Hill)
3:45 Roman Forum
4:10 Temple of Vesta
4:15 Arch of Augustus
4:34 Augustan rostra
4:39 Equestrian sculpture of Septimius Severus
4:57 Temple of Castor and Pollux
5:00 Temple of the divine Julius Caesar
5:33 Trajanic reliefs
5:49 Senate building
6:15 Statue of Phocas
6:37 Tabularium (state record office)
6:42 Temple of Saturn
6:44 Temple of Vespasian and Titus
6:50 Temple of Concordia
7:09 Arch of Septimius Severus
7:14 Imperial Fora
7:40 Forum of Julius Caesar
7:57 Forum of Augustus
7:57 Temple of Mars Ultor
8:17 Transitorium (Forum of Nerva)
8:39 Forum of Trajan
8:48 Temple of the Divine Trajan
8:54 Column of Trajan
9:05 Basilica Ulpia
9:12 & 9:36 Pantheon
9:18 Campus Martius (public area of Rome)
9:28 Mausoleum of Augustus
9:44 Saepta Julia
9:49 Temple of Isis
10:15 Theatre of Pompey

[theartassignment]

So extremely cool to see Ancient Rome this way! What a treat.

[mjlupetta]

I love this! Can you imagine if history was taught this way in school- with 3D virtual reality?!?! Kids would LOVE history and it would certainly make art history even more interesting than it already is! :) I plan on showing this to my art history kids and my 2-D kids! We need more forward thinking artists to create these visual realities!!

[joyhavana]

The Romans were amazing builders, engineers, architects!

[ElNietoPR]

Imagine if this with the unreal engine! Also, it would be amazing to have characters just going about their day!

[drone-time]

It would be interesting to see a time-lapse of the city, to see the buildings as they went up, and the level of preservation as time went on. Obviously these buildings represent several many years of history, some would have already been ancient when others were just being built.

[ronpaulsonshow]

Your videos are just simply amazing. Thank you guys so much. There's something about your vivid explanations of the topics, you guys' wonderful voices and clear interest in the subjects that makes these videos so enthralling for a layman like me. I appreciate the work!

[Paul-ucqj]

Just think of the massive amount of human effort it took to tear all of this impressive structural grandeur to the ground. The Dark Ages were truly Dark.

[scott]

This has quickly become my favorite channel ancient history. These guys are amazing.

[Jbalaji]

Amazing - an excellent effort to show how Rome looked. I really appreciate all those who involved in creating this wonderful video, which made us all to see how Rome looked thousands of years ago.
With warm regards
Balaji - Sydney - Australia

[Eudaimonia]

This is an amazing upload. One feels privileged to be able to go back in time at the click of a button.

[David-tpsr]

Need to use this for the next Assassin's Creed.

[fredmertes]

Love to watch these vids where ancient places are recreated.... Amazing that these can be recreated with such accuracy based on the ruins/buildings and the writings/drawings from back in the day.... One thing I always wonder with these - were there a lot of people walking around and going places? How crowded with people was it back then?

[pikestance]

This is really cool. Every now and then, it is almost as if the both of you are actually there describing the city as it is. Impressed and subscribed.

[jurgenkoks]

Thank you for this, I just came back from Rome, visiting all of these structures that you showed and it was magnificent but at the same time impossible to imagine what it once looked like. You have really helped me in that manner! :)

[marshhen]

This is just stunning. What a fantastic tool for study. As someone who studied art history one black and white photo slide at a time of separate Roman monuments in the 90's I cannot believe the advances that have been made. Magnificent.

[arriesone]

Absolutely fascinating re-creation. Wonderful too that so many of these ancient monuments still stand in Rome today.

[brianferris]

I've been in Rome for 3 weeks. I wish I was saw this before I arrived. Excellent!!!

[sven]

Nice model. Just one little note: The Ponte Cestio as seen at the beginning on the right side of the Island looked different back then. Todays appeareance with the three large bows comes from an later widening of the river. The original Ponte Cestio had just one big bow in the middle and two smaller ones next to it. Only the middle one is still roman.

[SamAceRothstein]

It's remarkable how just about every city as we know it today is put to shame by what this ancient city used to be 2000+ years ago. Paris and London are the only cities outside of Italy even worth mentioning today architecturally, none can truly hold their own in the face of Ancient Rome.