Ancient Rome Reborn Through Virtual Reality

[@jeffreymedeiros6253]

This is exactly what I remember it looking like. Well done.

[@Cre80s]

So nostalgic, right??

[@jonp3890]

Borderline maudlin transmigration of souls.

[@earldriskill3505]

You're immortal? lol

[@TheBlackbelair]

Great Zeus!

[@bombasticbushkin4985]

Salvete Romani. You've aged very well my friend. Longo vivas tempore et bene sit.

[@ran_d_d]

Rome is such an amazing city. I’ve heard so many people say “oh there are too many tourists”.. but there’s a reason for that. It’s just so cool to walk around a corner and see the pantheon or colosseum. My step dad has family in Naples. So every time I’ve visited I think we have gone up to Rome as well.

[@AndreaTamponi]

I have lived in Rome since 1976. The city has many attractions but the quality of life is terrible for the majority of its citizens. Visiting it is an experience not without suffering and disappointment. Thanks to the fact that I live there and that I have often acted as a "Cicero", telling it to friends and relatives, I have seen a good 60/70% of the things in almost 50 years but for a few years now I have refused to tell it: I have suffered enough. Not all that glitters is gold.

[@ran_d_d]

@@AndreaTamponi I would have thought it was pretty expensive to live there considering how different the prices of everything are compared to Napoli. It’s unfortunate the quality of life isn’t great there.. being one of the most visited cities in the world I would think there’d be more programs to give aid to people since tourism is bringing in so much money.

[@aleet71]

@@AndreaTamponi to say that the quality of life is terrible in Rome seems exaggerated and disrespectful to those who really have a low quality of life, Rome has many problems, similar to other large European cities and some chronic ones typical of Italy but few cities in the world offer as much as Rome in terms of entertainment, food, climate and obviously art and history.

[@AndreaTamponi]

@@aleet71 Probably not the best adjective but it was synthetic. Let's talk about the bad aspects of this city. Traffic is chaotic but not like other cities, so much so that it is often unpredictable and it is almost impossible to organize multiple appointments in various places and hope to get there on time. Of course there are cities in Italy like Naples and Palermo where the chaos is even greater but they are decidedly smaller. Parking spaces do not exist in sufficient numbers, either free or paid, and second-row and "creative" parking as we call them are the norm. Rome only has 3 metro lines. Try to get on them and take a trip and then you will explain to me if they are decent and up to the importance of the city. The buses are insufficient and do not run at fixed times but you go to the stop and wait for them sometimes after a while lighting a candle to the Madonna. Waiting an hour or more for a bus is not uncommon. The drivers are among the most absentee employees in Italy so trips are interrupted very easily and whether there are important football matches or not, health problems spread in a flash. Strikes are frequent and wild. Car breakdowns or road problems are the same. Public services are obscene in general for whatever practice you need. There is the case that to get the identity card if there are no proven reasons of urgency it can take months to get it. The streets are so dirty that in recent years wild boars have come to keep us company from the countryside, while since time immemorial seagulls have dominated the center of Rome for long periods of the year. Tell me do you want me to detail it further?

[@craigbhill]

These two prior comments are not at all my experience. Ro.a is my favorite city

[@ericwest128]

Insane how rich this city looked in ancient times.Just Amazing buildings

[@MarkRoberts-bj2me]

Just think how beautiful American cities would look if the insane filthy rich individuals that have run the Empire since WWII had not decided to engage in a permanent war economy. Weapons have no intrinsic worth. They are made to be deployed and destroyed. Only a relatively small clique of capitalists are a part of the MIC. The making of weaponry does provide employment although building beautiful neighorhoods would as well, and makes a fabulously wealthy group of industrialists even richer all by suckling the Empire's teets and amassing a National Debt of tens of trillions of dollars.

[@abcdeshole]

⁠@@MarkRoberts-bj2me American cities aren’t ugly because of war, they’re ugly because of car culture.

[@Inbraneinthememsane]

@@MarkRoberts-bj2meImagine how great American cities would be without democrats, ghetto gangs, hoes, migrants and a certain demographic

[@justadildeau]

​@@abcdesholelmfao

[@DzikiFinansista]

​@@MarkRoberts-bj2me It's because of the state not capitalism.

[@garycourtier4668]

Rome was truly a marvel of architecture and engineering. Fascinating video. Thank you.

[@LG-ro5le]

Humans have always been master builders & engineers, arguably better in the past than we are now

[@saint_matthias]

What about now

[@Legendaryium]

@@LG-ro5le "arguably better in the past than we are now" with emphasize on arguably lmfao

[@LG-ro5le]

@@Legendaryium ‘definitely’ better in the past...

[@Legendaryium]

@@LG-ro5le yea right. cause in the past they could build what we can build now.. have you ever looked around you? or do you live in a desert?

[@rayharvey1330]

Ancient Rome looks better than most places around the world today.

[@f0ns0r]

*all

[@scifiordie]

Ancient Rome in ruins looks better and is cleaner than India today

[@yeeg7729]

any place out of india is cleanet than india :')

[@MrTruth-vk5by]

Lmao, def better than modern american cities

[@KyleJPie10]

Because it was basically a city for wealthy people only. The people that lived in poverty (which was the overwhelming majority of the population), did not live in the areas that you see here.

[@fernando5silva]

I lived in Rome for 4 months to study its architecture as part of my master’s degree back in 2022… during the first days I was stunned by the mere sight of the Ruins (and also the Renaissance buildings). The impact will last forever in me.

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

Ubisoft gave us a pretty impressive rendering of Rome during the Renaissance era in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, I had lots of fun just wandering around the city. And now Yorescape is actually giving us the Eternal City at the height of the Empire. Gorgeous!

[@Amm17ar]

I had a friend who went to Rome a while ago, and he sent me pictures and every caption had something to do with Assasins Creed lol. Hed send pictures of how he climbed that tower, or saw that fountain. Though the games arent as great now, you still have to appreciate all the work they put in getting the infrastructure, people, culture and enviroment as close as they could to reality. I know they brought on a lot of historians for those projects and it showed. Probably the best recreation of ancient Rome in a video game. Really cool and memorable way of experiencing history.

[@ProRTS]

I would love for Ubisoft to give us their take of Rome during this time period

[@davefranklyn7730]

Driving thru Rome at night I noticed the top windows of the Theatre of Marcellus and some were lighted. I asked my Italian friend why? He said those were people's apartments. Imagine that! People have apartments in a 2000 year old building! It really staggers the mind.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Yes, amazing. We've seen some of the properties inside- incredible!

[@markloxley5821]

@@AncientRomeLive they cost a fortune lol

[@brendadrew834]

:Loved this, amazing virtual reality! Everytime this 76 year old sees the Colosseum, it reminds me of the time I was in Rome at age 20 and was just beginning to cross the street! It was summer and I was wearing red shorts and a white top and all of a sudden a little Fiat pulled up to a screeching halt, two guys in there, the one closest to me, rolled down the window, pulled my head in and gave me a big kiss on the lips! Needless to say, I was stunned! Then they sped off, came to another screeching halt, drove back in reverse, rolled down the window and handed me my earring that had fallen off in the process! I'm still stunned! LOL Thanks Arrivederci Roma~ ♥♥

[@Perebynis]

Imagine what a time traveller from ancient Rome must feel like when he sees (more or less) all those marvelous buildings lying in ruins. You could comfort him that Rome and the Romans have influenced Europe and large parts of the world in more ways you can imagine. Seeing it like that, Rome never really has fallen. Past blends into present. That´s the aspect of Roman culture most fascinating to me.

[@Irreo]

This may sound a little crazy, or childish, but I live alone, and sometimes while I have lunch, I kind of run my imagination into the opposite. I have this "superpower" that allows me to acomplish anything I want, and I give tours to historians, or people obsessed with roman history and the like, allowing them to spend some days in the ancient Rome, Pompei, etc. visit the forums, taverns, bath houses, see how it looked, see the people, the soldiers... It's fun, and helps me disconnect from the real world. And it's funny because as I was watching the video I though the same as you. What would all those nobles and powerful people think if they saw how all their temples and buildings looked like today, not to mention how different the things are in the daily activities. Regards.

[@shamshirhussain8198]

​@Irreo that sounds awesome but I think you should try connecting to the real world a bit more

[@Irreo]

@@shamshirhussain8198 I'm connected to the real world enough with my taxes, house loan, personal worries, etc. Letting my imagination fly 30 minutes helps me heal 😬 Think of it as if brainstorming for a book.

[@Daniel-jv1ku]

@@Irreo And that's good but, speaking from personal experience, you should master how to bring vitality & magic into life. Then, your potential will be fulfilled. Also... maybe go into architecture or city planning.

[@brb4903]

@@Irreo Lol same, I also run my imagination while eating

[@jasonellis112]

Greek culture, religion, philosophy, arts, architecture is everywhere!

[@Amm17ar]

You can tell by their inflections and enthusiasm, that this was a really fun and passionate project for them. Well done, really cool to see.

[@TaeSunWoo]

It amazes me how architecture was so refined this early in human history

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Rome was tackier than it shows here however. More colorful. The temples had paintings. But to make all the correct textures for the 3D model, of the entire city, much more research would be needed, and probably it would be much slower. Assassins Creed (a game series) gets it more correctly< in their games set in ancient greece and ancient alexandria kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4nbcmd5jcR8ppo

[@saloneman3768]

Did you say early in human history? 😂. Egyptian civilization had flourished and declined 2000 years before Rome. Egypt was as ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us 😊😊

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@saloneman3768 Maybe he is a young Earth creationist and forgets Homo Sapiens existed for over 200 thousand years before Rome. And even if we only consider the first human cities... like Gobleki Tepe, that was like 10 thousand years before Rome. Your example of Egypt being so old compared to Rome must be more specific, since Rome was founded in 750 BC(in the myths) and can be said to only have ended with the fall of Constantinople. Usually, I hear your example like this: "Cleopatra and Julius Caesar lived farther away in time from the building of the Pyramids of Giza than they lived to mankind landing on the Moon on the Apollo missions... ... or couples posting sex photos dressed as Caesar and Cleopatra on OnlyFans.

[@unhommequicourt]

Guys you re arguing over nothing. No one said it was early in human history. It was written "this early". Get a life

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@unhommequicourt it changes nothing. It's still not THIS EARLY in human history. If I say "did you know the Doom was released this early in the 20th century?", referring to 1995, I am sure you will laugh and say 1995 was not this early in the 20th century

[@generator6946]

I love Rome! I’ve been there twice. I’d live there if I could! It’s like going back home …

[@AndreaTamponi]

You would regret it in a maximum of 6 months.😅 I have lived in Rome since 1976. The city has many attractions but the quality of life is terrible for the majority of its citizens.😱 Not all that glitters is gold.🙃😉

[@mahmoudaskar7955]

@@AndreaTamponi tu non meriti Roma! Ci sono nato, cresciuto e vivo qui da 40 anni, ma non smetto mai di stupirmi della sua bellezza, guardare il tramonto con le sue luci rosate sui monumenti antichi mi commuove sempre!

[@AndreaTamponi]

@@mahmoudaskar7955 Ti sbagli io non contesto la bellezza e la gloria di Roma, quella della sua storia, anzi, ne contesto la vivibilità che lasciamelo dire è meramente eufemistico dire che sia miserrima. Sul fatto che a Roma puoi respirare la gloria del passato non ho obiezioni e per esempio io che la vivo come te anche in periodi più fortunati dell'anno sotto tanti aspetti la trovo meravigliosa ma se parliamo di qualità reale del vivere e non di una condizione riflessa Roma è una città orrenda.

[@pasqualedevico1766]

Fai una bella cosa.... Vattene... sicuramente non ti rimpiangera' nessuno....

[@exchangAscribe]

@@AndreaTamponi what exactly do you mean by lower quality of living

[@unarealtaragionevole]

Rome Reborn isn't a "new" project. It's been around since the 90s ;o). But I do love that they keep updating it with new features, graphics, and little details. I used to dream they would allow their virtual model to be used by a quality game maker and we would get the Ancient Rome game we deserve in all its glorious immersion.

[@SParchitects]

Completely agree with the game part. And you can even find the whole history of the project on wikipedia.

[@AncientRomeLive]

This is technically Rome Reborn 4.0- so an updated - new- version

[@unarealtaragionevole]

@@AncientRomeLive 😂Oh I knew what you meant, it's just funny to hear it said. As a classicist myself, I always chuckle on the inside when I hear the word "new" used when talking about "old" things. New to us doesn't make it any less old in reality. I remember at uni when I asked my prof if she heard about a new fort they found in Spain and she looked at me and said, "How can you call a 2000 year old fort 'new'?"

[@derekweiland1857]

I would live an occulus version of this where I can wander the streets. Maybe even populate it with NPCs doing and saying Roman Era things.

[@_theFeltes]

Hopefully the Project can get realistic graphics in the next years, it looks insane in the Architecture part of it, but still looks like a SketchUp pre-render with graphics that is more than a decade old in the time of greatest graphical upgrades, and while it's certainly an insane project in scale and fidelity, it still looks too surreal, clean and like a 2006 game, VR already has too much potential, but most of it is kinda lost if your project instead of looking real, looks like that basic 3D Render for the new playground that your city is building. Seeing the past in a cartoony way surely helps, but it's nothing compared to seeing it as if it was as real as your perception of the modern world, too many of our past is disconnected from modern times based on perception alone, black and white/sepia pictures/movies, decayed buildings, statues and paintings, etc. Put a good Shaders, some procedural Textures and Heightmaps in the buildings, realistic terrain/foliage and you'll get a 10x better project for the viewers.

[@terri348]

Ancient Rome must have struck visitors with awe!

[@Kathleenkelly70]

Rome still does! Just fabulous! 😊

[@CryptoX-kr3wu]

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius."

[@bozboz4414]

Nope it's definitely not

[@zafster22]

“Father to a murdered son, Husband to a murdered wife.. And I WILL have my vengeance - in this life or the next!”

[@masamune2984]

Because “Gladiator” is the only thing people seem to know or think about Ancient Rome.

[@sirgalahad1376]

@@masamune2984Of course! It’s the greatest true story ever told!

[@thomas-wd3cn]

Yeah! I love documentaries.

[@tonybaker55]

Having been to Rome about 5 years ago, I was amazed at how many buildings are still there, considering the wars that have taken place there over the centuries.

[@jonathanjonathan7386]

the vast majority of the old buildings were lost brick by brick to greedy princes and popes keen to get some ready made building materials.

[@LukasMatejka-du5hb]

Rome is beautiful till this day...... imagine seeing it back then, when all this beauty was just recently built

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

So cool to see modern-day and ancient views of the sites. Very educational.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Thank you!

[@historion]

Just a wake up call that civilization generally progress, but not linearly. It goes backwards from time to time. Quite nice. Thank you.

[@AverageAlien]

This false claim suggests that there is some sort of goal for civilisation to obtain? There isn't. So there is no such thing as going "backwards"

[@Poopooprod]

How so?

[@kakhak]

Most magnificent city ever built to be fair.

[@user-md3wm7vu1f]

does anything else come close?

[@AuschwitzMyPants]

Maybe Constantinople or Alexandria during their golden eras. @@user-md3wm7vu1f

[@TheTienBui]

I was visiting Rome last year with Uni-classmates. One of the most amazing trip I've ever done.

[@genemorris9432]

This is a great idea but the way it's presented I had difficulty correlating what we have today with what it was. Better to show each structure separately as a before and after scenario.

[@WmTRiker]

Agreed, same here. Another good idea would be to show one version, real or CGI, and swipe across the screen to the other. I always like "then and now" comparisons, but they are best if shown from identical perspectives as much as possible.

[@philfyphil]

Yes, it’s awful, why bother!

[@spamlessaccount]

@@philfyphil I wouldn't say 'awful' - the reconstructions are amazing. It's just not an effective way to juxtapose the before and after.

[@philfyphil]

@@spamlessaccount Agree, but I was referring to the presentation and production of video. Maybe I am being a little harsh, but could have been so much better.

[@PM2022]

Or, just put text labels in a corner up top!

[@pile333]

Amazing job! Congrats to those who made it.

[@MBP1918]

Such a beautiful city

[@caledoniawarrior]

Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. Jewels of history so beautiful their like has never been matched. Now they won't just live in our hearts but return in virtual format so our children will know what man and woman are capable of.

[@marylee32]

All stolen jewels from black culture. None of these places would exist without us

[@giuseppecalegari3852]

@@marylee32 Cultura nera?

[@marylee32]

@ the Roman’s was all black and the Greeks and the Egyptians and even the Japanese was all BLACK

[@caledoniawarrior]

Oh please. Mental masturebation is a disease.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I always thought about what it would be like to go back in time and observe what would transpire in a single day, it would be indeed fascinating!

[@TheZestyTea]

Great video! Thanks for all of your hard work, Darius!

[@AncientRomeLive]

We thank you! ARL team

[@Washington-Dreaming]

Amazing. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome maybe twice. Last time I was there they had fencing all around I think maybe because of vandalism, which really sucks. Please respect these real sites if you ever go. They belong to everyone.

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

Probably for the massive restoration project they embarked on. There are videos about.

[@santoshr2984]

Honestly .. this is an amazing idea. I cant wait to see those ancient wonders of the world brough back to life. Damn I would pay for such content. Cheers folks.

[@davefranklyn7730]

Also, right before Christmas of 1991, my wife and I were in Rome. We went to a nighttime Christmas open air fair in the Piazza Navona that was once was the Stadium of Domitian. It started to rain, so we walked a few blocks eastward heading to the Metro station at the Colosseum but then it really started to rain. We followed some people who were going into what I thought was a large church. It actually was the Pantheon. I didn't even realize what it was until i was inside. It was amazing! And no rain was coming down from the hole in the roof even though a moment ago I was getting deluged. I stood there, looking up at the hole and amazed no rain was falling on me.

[@AncientRomeLive]

We have some videos on the Pantheon you should check out!

[@analogalbacore7166]

Pointless

[@jonathanjonathan7386]

sadly u cant just walk into there anymore

[@easycake3251]

Just got back from Rome. And watching this really gives perspective into what you see there. So thank you for that. Sadly... the ruins are so badly preserved and so little is actually left today, that looking at it from the Roman Forum, where the center or Rome was (At least from what I read there), its nearly impossible to actually imagine what it all looked like. So little is left. And the looters, pillagers, the Church (Which did both) and many others thru the centuries have take and destroyed so much to form other buildings. It was all left there in the dirt to decay for ages, before being excavated and preserved today. Even the population of Rome use to take material from the ancient buildings to build what ever they needed at the time.

[@archinatic678]

Yeah ironically it would've been better preserved if it were completely abandoned during the middle ages

[@giovannimoriggi5833]

That's how hitstory works. And without the use and the discovery of ancient ruins in the Middle Ages, we couldn't have the Renaissances (and many new buildings). Rome has never crystallized, before and after the Romans, it's just normal.

[@pio4362]

You have a very antiquated, Gibbonesque understanding of history. The Roman elite were the ones dominating the bishoprics in the Church at the time, you are presenting a false dichotomy there. They didn't loot anything, they preserved as much as they could in light of the circumstances. Buildings naturally fall into disrepair if they aren't maintained and when you don't have the funds to do so that is the consequence you face. Rome fell into a serious financial crisis in the 3rd century, borne out of constant civil war and short-sighted imperial mismanagement, the Western half was lucky to last as long as it did. The idea of worshipping static ruins is a very modern one, for the vast majority of history people have been practical with buildings, not leaving them to rot but to accommodate them to new functions instead with required alterations, as well as recycling building material in general. When outright destruction did come it came from periodic earthquakes (Italy lies in active tectonic region) and from Justinian's cataclysmic invasion in the 6th century. The only reason places like Hagia Sophia and the Pantheon survive is because people found new purposes for them. You should be grateful they weren't knocked down and that we can still visit them today.

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

It’d be cool if they could color it. Ancient Rome was a riot of color.

[@darylmorse]

This is amazing. I was just in Rome and I really enjoyed seeing the forum and many other sites. This rendering brings a completely different perspective.

[@MarkMiller-i8q]

Terrific! In the future, I hope they do a virtual rendering of ancient Rome's housing stock to get an idea of how the general populace lived.

[@1fires1]

In those ancient days anyone entering the city for the first time must have been in absolute awe.

[@araeofsunshine9435]

The Time Warps are AMAZING! ❤

[@babydollface]

*That's* what the pantheon looked like? That's amazing! Such a different vibe!

[@rubberroast1598]

Fantastic rendering. I was there 5 years ago for my bucket list visit to rome. Stayed in hotel room right across street from colloseum with perfect view on it. It was tough to imagine what all those ruins looked like in their glory years, but this video did it well. I wish they would restore one slice of a colloseum section as it was back in the day so visitors can envision themselves as part of it then. SAme goes for Pompeii......maybe restore one high end home there, a mid tier one and a lower tier one plus one or two of the businesses. There are so many, this would be such a cool experience for the people coming to see it.

[@alfinpogform4774]

Love the enthusiasm of the narrator!

[@AncientRomeLive]

Grazie!

[@jennifersiegrist8440]

Very interesting, love watching the rendering of what may/ has been. Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@AncientRomeLive]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@amazon5031]

What a city! Eternal indeed!

[@georgerichardson7728]

Full of beggars and hustlers now, and dangerous around termini station at night

[@thomaswschaller]

Thank you so much for this. Spectacular work !!

[@amiami4619]

So grateful to you and for the efforts that’s gone in making this video. Thank you so much for the visuals It’s simply Amazing

[@AncientRomeLive]

Wow, thank you!

[@anthonylagano]

Very cool! I’ve been to Rome twice . Fascinating city. I wish they would restore the coliseum and some of the other buildings to their original glory 😎😎😎

[@crosisofborg5524]

Restoration would destroy the historical aspect.

[@chrissellas9578]

A pearl of world history.

[@enricozetti]

I'm assuming in the model trees are put wherever there is uncertainty although I'd have to say that this might be somewhat deceiving considering that: - Rome would have been very densely populated. Estimates I've seen place it between 18.000 and 70.000 people per square km - The city would have extended up to the walls and even outside of them. Further outside most of the surrounding countryside would have been cultivated. - Trees were in very high demand since wood was used for heating (in charcoal form aswell), cooking, construction (as a structural material, for scaffolding and cranes and for baking bricks and melting metals), shipbuilding (there are still entire forests that were artificially planted for this purpose), for the production of pottery and most of the tools and furniture and so on. So much so that, although the extent is debated, deforestation is widely registered across the mediterranean sea during ancient times. Thermal baths alone were consuming huge amounts of fuel. This would have been mitigated by forest management and there were forests planted or maintained for various purposes both by privates and state owned. A lot of wood would have been imported to Rome even from very far away (mostly by sea). Lucretius in De Rerum Natura might give us a glimpse on how they perceived their landscape and the anthropic intervention in nature: "Then one after another they essayed ways of tilling their smiling plot, and saw the earth tame wild fruits with tender care and fond tilling. And day by day they would constrain the woods more and more to retire up the mountains, and to give up the land beneath to tilth, that on hills and plains they might have meadows, pools, streams, crops, and glad vineyards, and the grey belt of olives might run between with its clear line, spreading over hillocks and hollows and plains; even as now you see all the land clear marked with diverse beauties, where men make it bright by planting it here and there with sweet fruit-trees, and fence it by planting it all round with fruitful shrubs." The model itself is very intriguing. One thing i'd hope to see more and more in the future is "dirtier" reconstructions. textures and props that would convey the image of a crowded, somewhat dirty, thriving metropolis with smoke rising, constructions and renovations constantly ongoing, monuments that were centuries old and aging. Most of the time we are presented models where everything is new, polished and shiny and the city seem to exist completed and perfect as if in a mythological realm out of time. Still it is very helpful to give information about what was where and what shape and size it had and of course many details in a more vibrant representation would have to be somewhat speculated.

[@AncientRomeLive]

thanks for your input! We'll pass it on to the creators of the app.

[@historaedireito]

As a Roman Law Channel, I celebrate such project.Usually people say Rome was colorful, not marble white, but I wonder they afforded the cost of pigments to make the buildings colored (expensive even for today standarts, try to paint your house blue or yellow to see the cost). But congratulatios for adding trees. People forget the trees all time.

[@jmoneyp4p]

They were so advanced. Their architecture and aqueduct designs was so beautiful. Far more beautiful and advanced than current Africa today

[@vickilindberg6336]

Really enjoy this. Helps a lot in appreciating what still remains. Thanks.

[@dremarley4388]

that is really cool, to see Ancient Rome. Amazing

[@jacquilayton2557]

They make it look new and pristine, but with all the smoke from fires, I wonder how clean it would’ve been?

[@keboonplumeria5266]

Beautiful city. I need a 'Roman Holiday'! now 🎉

[@starsnake8176]

Wow! This is really cool! The reconstructions are really beautiful! I really like the aesthetics of Roman style and architecture, I wish there was more of it today.

[@jonathanjonathan7386]

its all around you, american supreme court, birmingham town hall etc etc

[@Eric-jo8uh]

Shame the present Rome can’t be restored. Like wise Athens.

[@Happy-wb8gi]

The best most amazing influential Empire ever.

[@leelajohn]

Thank you very much for the video. I wish I had known about the app during my recent trip to Rome from October 10th to 22nd. I will have to come back to Rome next year to test it out. 😊

[@AncientRomeLive]

It’s not location based- so you can enjoy it outside of Rome!

[@leelajohn]

@@AncientRomeLive Thank you very much for this informative video. I used the app during my trip to Rome three weeks ago.

[@Limba777]

😮😮😮 such beautiful architecture.

[@amazon5031]

Roman culture is inherited by every one!

[@Yoje_edits22]

no, only by Roman descendants.

[@Shiryone]

I sure hope not. Their history is nasty and barbaric.

[@spewgilist]

it’s trendy today to reject western civilization

[@RubraLIber]

@@Shiryone L'intera cultura occidentale ha le proprie basi sulle culture greco-romana. Forse dovresti studiare l'organizzazione politico-legale, il diritto, l'economia, l'urbanistica e la logistica, capiresti le radici culturali occidentali. Il più importante avamposto-città costruito dai romani in UK si chiamava Londinum, ti ricorda niente questo nome?

[@Shiryone]

@@RubraLIber Sì hai ragione. E tutto questo aveva un prezzo. Grazie per il tuo commento.

[@monofootballacademy3285]

Amazing to see how city preserved after more than 2,000 years. Recently Rome still looks similar from bird eyes' view with the 2 millenniums ago

[@larrywilliams5490]

WOW!!! Totally Amazing! 👏

[@freedominion7369]

Fantastic video and thanks for posting 🏛️👏

[@benderisgreat95able]

It's funny how we're dozens of times wealthier today and still "can't afford" architecture like this. Capitalism will be remembered for its soulless city designs.

[@jjlynchee961]

Not like the fine architecture that adorns communist astropoli, hey?

[@johnorgan3]

each building, however, with private toilets, totally heated, air conditioned, electric stoves, refrigerators, running water, electrically lighted, garages hooding your latest form of transportation, separate bedrooms, mortgages to pay it off on time, and last but not least, at least one television in each. Soulless? Tell that to the Fresh Prince of Bel - Air!

[@thiagocto]

@@johnorgan3 96% of the people doesnt live like that

[@glaxb17]

Well, it seems obvious to me, at the time it was all done by hand, there were no machinery or industry (above all capitalism with its technical deadlines did not exist) there was no such thing as producing more than necessary, i.e. globalisation, they lived more tribally, therefore they concentrated their forces thinking only about the place where they lived, so they had all the time in the world... (each building was literally a work of art from priceless value) think of the Colosseum, entirely covered in marble (marble later dismantled when Rome fell with Christianity and recycled for the Vatican, given that in that era the Colosseum was stigmatized given that it was a symbol of paganism, after all the same fate that also befell all others buildings of ancient Rome, which is why today you see it like this, bare) furthermore there were also marble statues in every arch (therefore hundreds ) imagine how much something like that would cost today, would 10 billion dollars be enough??? (I do not believe) just having a modern house built completely by hand (bricks and materials included) would cost at least 100 times much, let alone such a complex and refined building filled with artistic works such as statues, capitals, marble, mosaics, etc...(all carved completely by hand, therefore maniacally finished by the best artists of the time) in fact according to modern standards they would be considered more works of art than buildings (so the value would be difficult to quantify)

[@aarondonald1611]

Industrialization changed everything

[@diddykong9366]

What's baffling me is how amazing and well made these structures are and the sheer size and detail and the places they had to get these. its hard to imagine that at the time their methods were advanced and another thing is no electricity! all these massive structures and very well made city and town and no electricity

[@kennethfharkin]

It is amazing to visit Rome and realize how much of it has been lost. If you want to know where all the marble went just look to St. Peter's.

[@keithwallace1665]

Just go to Mexico City and the huge plaza there el zocolo and what happened to the great temple it was razed and they built a cathedral next to it!one god replaced another

[@terrymarr5265]

This would be much more effective if both past and present had the exact same camera angle - then we’d know what we’re looking at back & forth

[@Iwantluisbarbozasobad]

I wish cities were still made like this

[@Alec-x5l]

lol no you don’t

[@Chadrick2]

@@Alec-x5l Virgin London, a dystopian looking city where everyone is divided and no one speaks English, dirty smelling streets, "diversity is a strength", crime is high, women cant stay outside alone for more then 10 minutes without being attacked, nor 70% of the city is native to the country vs Rome a city where unified romans can enjoy the fresh breath of heaven like buildings with clean streets and low crime.

[@Alec-x5l]

@@Chadrick2 lol you don’t get how Rome fell pretty much the same way the west is falling they let in their enemies and were destroyed from within.

[@Chadrick2]

@@Alec-x5l Exactly but Rome was alive for a very long time.

[@Chadrick2]

@@Alec-x5l There was a time before that its a shame seeing Europe's fall though we are already a ethnic minority to the world and Europe is all we got by 2070 every country in Europe will be 30% native of its population and so on until we are extinct.

[@humanharddrive1]

Thank you for making this, I'll check it out

[@PunchBuggyDreams]

In a way, viewing ancient Rome from above using Timewarp really looks like a futuristic city.

[@precariousworlds3029]

When a city from 2000 years ago looks more out of the future than the modern day

[@davidmorgan5581]

​@@precariousworlds3029Nah our greatest cities today definitely look like something straight out of "the future". We're probably just so used to it that we don't even see it half the time. And also it probably doesn't look like the future we want lol.

[@TrishGua]

Asombroso video.... Gracias x compartirlo y darnos, a conocer x este medio como era la Roma Antigua... Impresionante y muy bella👌👍❤️

[@MrMenefrego1]

I have often wondered why Italy didn't restore its various ancient Roman buildings, monuments, and temples. I have visited Italy many times, and looking at the ruins of once-grand buildings is quite underwhelming. After several trips to Pompeii and Herculaneum, one can see what the structures should look like; they are magnificent!

[@giuseppecalegari3852]

Credo sia una decisione degli archeologi. Sono stata a Brescia, qualche giorno fa, e ci sono molte rovine Romane. Sono belle così e, sinceramente, non vorrei che venissero ricostruite del tutto.

[@occamlaser]

YESSS! Now do tenochitlan, babylon, and carthage!

[@Faygris]

I've heard historians say that most of the white marble would have been painted in vibrant colors back then

[@harald144]

Then Rome probably looked like the eighties😂

[@aaronpeta]

How wild would it be if they rebuilt everything to original spec utilizing and preserving the structures that are still intact.

[@ProfoundProductions]

That’s what they should do actually.

[@octavianorogesmusic]

Just missing the beautiful colors Rome had!

[@1aikane]

Wonderful!!

[@mydreamia]

When an ancient city looks more modern than your city in 2024

[@morgan97475]

Thanks for this. Very frakin' cool.

[@marquese1960]

Always wanted to know what the Coliseum looked like in antiquity. I visited it in 1982 it was awesome, what I'm wondering still was it cladded in marble.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

Yes, it was completely covered in marble. It was reused most famously for St Peter's Basilica grand cathedral façade. So if you look at that you get an idea of what it would have looked like.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Exterior: travertine blocks. Interior was covered in marble veneer, marble seats.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

@@AncientRomeLive - The Colosseum is built of travertine limestone, tuff (volcanic rock), and brick-faced concrete. But much of the exterior was faced with marble.

[@godscommandmentsaretruthis2837]

I was just there a couple of weeks ago. Wish I had seen this video before going. Well done.

[@BenjaminIMeszaros]

Nexts step- add all the paint and color

[@marcussmith4913]

Looks pretty cool, and more interesting now that ive actually been there.

[@21299]

I always thought they should restore sections of Pompeii or Herculeneum or ?? but restore it to the "T", working bakeries and food and working baths and the floors put back in, the whole thing.

[@giuseppecalegari3852]

No, non sono d'accordo.

[@theirishbandit7301]

It looked so modern. This is so cool

[@bg8006]

Seeing all this I can't help but wonder how did they manage to build all that spectacular city with no technology at all. The architecture, the labour it involved is truly astonishing and hard to comprehend!

[@Pfisiar22]

They had plenty of technology. No. They didn't have electricity, but they had master of construction machines. Their use of concrete was highly advanced. It was strong, light, and relatively seasy to build with. They also had massive amounts of slave labor, so there is also that.

[@-DaMox-]

"There's nothing you can't do with an endless amount of slaves." - Slave owner

[@davidserlin8097]

I think you need to expand your definition of technology. These people were at the cutting edge of engineering, surveying, architecture, urban planning, and every mechanical device known throughout the world. The average (free) Roman was much better educated than the average American.

[@VidaCultural17]

no technology?

[@abdacnc3969]

​@@Pfisiar22yes ,, but as matter of fact, the romans learned everything from their idols, the greeks

[@marksprinkle]

It's so clean.

[@ngana8755]

Rome 2,000 years ago was more impressive than most cities today, and probably cleaner too.

[@stsk1061]

I think Alexandria would have been even more impressive and then look at it today.

[@AndreaTamponi]

@@stsk1061 Rome was a city of over a million people. Alexandria had a maximum of 300,000. The density of monuments and works is in no way comparable to the time of their maximum splendor. Rome then had an incomparably superior thousand-year history. I can pretty say you're wrong on the point. But you know I'm biased I live in Rome.

[@stsk1061]

@@AndreaTamponi It's more likely that both cities had a population of about 500,000; they were similar in size, at about 10 to 13 km2. Alexandria would have been impressive given it's planned design and the monuments built based on the riches of Egypt. Rome did catch up during imperial times though.

[@AndreaTamponi]

@@stsk1061 No way. Based on Beloch method Beloch concludes on the basis of food consumption that the population of Rome was 760,000-810,000 at least and adding up some other people strictly related to Rome the total number it's not so far to a million. The surface area of the city of Rome reached a maximum of 25 km2. Alexandria by the time of Augustus the city grid encompassed an area of 10 km2 and the total population during the Roman principate was around 500,000-600,000, 300.000 free. Aside from your statement, what are your sources other than yourself for stating what you claim?

[@stsk1061]

@@AndreaTamponi The area within the Aurelian walls was 12.8 km2, excluding the Tiber. That would be a population density of around 78,000 people per km2, which is somewhat implausible. Which claims do you want sourced?

[@andyroo9381]

I am left dreaming from this virtual tour.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Thanks! We are, too.

[@TheOnlySolipsist]

That is fascinating! TBH Rome somehow looks smaller than I had imagined in my mind. Though I would have a hard time describing exactly what picture resided within me whenever it came to something like Rome. Perhaps it’s more of a feeling I had whenever the city within the context of its history was brought up. Something that this video brings to question for me though; is there a way to view the city’s decay in any meaningful way through time? I am left to wonder how or why certain buildings or structures met their demise. Was their end natural or man made? I am sure that throughout history, any generations snapshot of Rome was something of antiquity worth keeping, yet here we are reconstructing what we are able to and preserve the rest even if ruin. Was it always so? When did the population just give up with its preservation? Oh so many questions…

[@Wollor86]

take into consideration that Rome is a city that crossed centuries (even millenniums) and always has been inhabitated. During the centuries people have to build up new buildings for their new purposes. And where to get building material easily and at low cost if not by pulling it out the ruins? If they needed to build a new palace, church or whatever during Rinascimento they didn't go to the quarries but took down an ancient building and used the material for the new one. Just think to the beautiful Piazza Navona that stands on the ancient Domiziano Stadium (whose the material has been partially used for the buildings surrounding the Square), or Palazzo Farnese built thanks to some demolished building in the Fori. And this went on for centuries in a process of urban renovation that tranformed the city as we know it now. But it would be wrong to think it always has been a matter of careleness towards history heritage. In fact many ancient buildings have been constantly renovated since ancient times and during the centuries until new needs took over and determined some historical structures' demise.

[@Poisson4147]

@@Wollor86👍👍👍 At last, another poster who understands something about history! Thank you.

[@BruceThaJuiceBanner]

I seldom use this adj.-but this is truly magnificent! Thank you for sharing this vision with folks worldwide. May collective interest & funding continue to flow, and allow future projects like this to come to fruition. 🌍 🌎

[@AncientRomeLive]

Wow, thank you!

[@brianconners8446]

Looks like a normal modern European cities, I live in a country where there's a lot of 18th century buildings,still durable and strong with a couple of modern adjustments here and there

[@tonyn3227]

They couldn't make such cities in this quality today even if they wanted to, amazing how this might have looked in those days.

[@soupwithfriends]

there is just not enough color for this to be accurate

[@alexguest9937]

Stunning

[@TheOtherKine]

The thing is, it NEVER looked ALL CLEAN and SOFT CLAY like it's always depicted in these "recreations" - as if the buildings were all built together at the same time within a few years of each other and continuously cleaned like some UNIVERSITY CAMPUS in the United States, LMAO The fact is, if it's at Constantine's time, half the buildings were derelict and in decay, covered in soot, sewage, garbage and painted over with all sorts of prior generations' colours as well as BLOOD and GRAFITTI, all nasty and almost BURNED down most of the time, roofs missing, cracked and having holes in them from local battles and fights within the citizenry and politicians and Guards! By the time it was Constantine, it was already 400 years worth of construction and buildings being overlaid, destroyed, and re-built again. What about the general effects of WEATHER??? Moisture from rains and humidity, wind destruction and general DECAY from EROSION???? Why do all these restorations make it seem like everything was pasty and perfectly smooth and clean all the time? Look at any place that has had 400 years of continuous habitation in the world, TODAY. The dirt and grime have dug in, deep. These videos always crack me up. And yes, I KNOW, because I am an ancient historian and somebody who understand and appreciates the passing of time and human generations and change of hands of things. LOL

[@stevederp9801]

I really think that someone should make a recreation of this as a theme park and make it so that it’s interactive where you feel like you’re immersed there. Everyone gets to wear a tunic or toga. Having gladiator fights similar to medieval times

[@Assadul-Naml]

Rome was full of prostitutes, hustlers, robbers, burglars and what not. It was a real nightmare to be a roman in rome. Also rome was a lot more colorful than just the bleak white monuments. Statues were colored and also there were a lot of pornographic murals, and when i say a lot it was a ridicolous amount. Rome is no different to Detroit or similar. But on a positive note, i give huge props to the people who made this reconstruction, it frankly looks amazing and coloring it in a historical accurate way shouldnt pose too much of a problem for this talented vfx artists.

[@brucewatt1032]

Magnificent - thanks for sharing!

[@AncientRomeLive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@christrites4251]

Very interesting. Love Roma. Why can't someone make a city building game like this?

[@samanli-tw3id]

Roman Simcity😂😂