As opposed to a foot-made model, one can only assume. :P

They should rebuild the city in a countryside area exactly how it was as much as they can and then allow people to live there. Modern cities are super ugly and boring and stressful. Imagine they also had people living there as work and doing like everyday peoples things like goinf to the arena. The tourism would surely be enough. Life should be more fun and bright and exciting. I feel like theres more voluntary slavery these days. Like really you can work ten years and retire or take a break for many years and enjoy your life and then go back to work if need be rather than just work till your too old to work and then if youre too old to work i think your too old to travel and do cool things that god gifted to us. How many of our hobies and passions just die. So sad. Just do fun things. Theres so many small cities either countryside or beach towns or even different countries we can go to. Nothing worse than just working away at a job thats so draining and boring your whole entire week whoch means your whole year, your whole decade, your whole 30s 40s 50s for and then just doing not much else except eating dinner and sleeping early and only going away on an adventure once or twice a year. How do you know where to adventure or how to adventure to your potential if you only did it 12 months ago

Well, I'm a little more pragmatic when it comes to the question, "Who is buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus?" Actually, nobody IS buried there. There are no remains whatsoever. They are all gone, scattered, lost. The same goes for the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the Column of Trajan, etc. etc. Actually, I am not aware that the remains of ANY emperor (or any of their family members, for that matter) have survived at all. The best we can say about places like the Mausoleum of Augustus is that high-ranking member of the imperial family once WERE buried there.

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*Looks like Romulus from Star Trek*

Amazing that buildings built almost 2000 years ago with "ordinary" bricks- the same size as we have today, can still be standing- and not just standing, but well preserved. In habitable condition. That concrete is something else. The majesty of Rome really was.

Never heard Constantine pronounced as "Constanteen" before. Interesting.

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you can raise a kid here and let stone walls teach them about sex education

good stuff as always. Glad I can also find you on The Great Courses

These are not the best preserved building IN the Roman empire. There is no Roman empire, and hasn't been one for a long ass time. These are the best preserved buildings FROM the Roman empire.

It's niche, not nitch.

Without a doubt I'd rather live in ancient Rome than London or Paris during the Middle Ages. The living comfort in ancient Pompeii was relatively the same as any US city in the mid to late 1800's

So many magnificent Churches have been converted into mosques. But where are all the Mosques that have been converted into churches?

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So...If I want my house to still be standing 2000 years from now, all I have to do is turn it into a church?

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VR version for Oculus?

Grazie.

Ancient Romans sure did like building stuff.

Great video as usual! Wasnt Marius consul 7 times?

0:11 makes one aware bout how massively huuuuge this model is. Seeing only some pictures makes one believe that it can't be that large but with that guy in front of it makes it totally clear.

The Rotunda in Thessaloniki. Too obvious

This channel is epic! You guys should have over 500k subscribers/followers! All of your videos are so well done! Thanks for the amazing educational content!

We're fed this idea that the world revolved around Rome yet there's History in the Americas that has yet to fully be discovered. Ruins in the Amazon, Ruins in Central America etc. Why do we continue to ignore the other side of the World? Is it the Natives of the Americas are not as pretty to the Eastern side of the World?

some onscreen tags would have been very-very very useful....

something that gets me is how honest they must have been back then, the open water courses that fed the whole city with clean drinking water could have easily been poisoned, today if cities had open water courses nutters would be queuing up to dump poisons in them, dead dogs, shit and piss in them, it is what people today would do,

If you build for eternity it will last. I was involved in a rather large project some years ago. The project manager said: I'm confident that we are making an investment that will last for at least 40-50 years.😂

This is greek not roman stop this propaganda

I appreciate the enthusiasm, they are preserved spectacularly well, that's true. But to say that they seem like they were made "yesterday" is too much, at least for me.

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Delightfully hosted tour and eloquently produced video. Thank you

Do scholars of Roman civilization overall feel that Rome looked much more grand 2,000 years ago than it does today? Wasn't the standard of living then for the average Roman quite squalid? Could any Roman citizen go to any of the plazas and temples as anyone else?

Brilliant. So glad the Professor and her team are doing this dig. Hope it is fruitful.

It's staggering to imagine that someone made this model. But then think about how much more to build to real thing... the mind boggles

As impressive as the model is we can agree this is a representation of what some believe what Rome look like in antiquity, but we all know that is not true Great effect have gone into making Rome look like a civilized metropolis, when it's not factual....

Walking through the ruins in Rome and just using your imagination is a surreal feeling.

Very well done! Quite informative.

BC👍not BCE!

women today would see this great model being created by Gismondi and would tell him that this was childish and he would need to get a real job and make money lol.

It's amazing but I think it could be a lot better. I'm a fan of dioramas and the trees here can be swapped out with realistic models for starters, then add some weathering colouring to each building and paint the windows to look like real wood then you can go further and paint tiling patterns on the roofs of the houses and maybe pour epoxy resin in the right colour for the river. It can look so much better with more detail!

Really a beautiful city.

Thank you

We're so lucky that Vesuvius buried the rich kids and their glorious stuff, rather than preserving impoverished slums or plantations where the po' folks lived with their milk crates, cable spools, and old KISS posters....

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How much time would you allocate to herculaneum vs pompeii if there for 1 day? Seems Herculaneum is the better site for getting an immersive experience

Not as old as this one, but Assassin's Creed fans got to see Renaissance Rome ( as well as Florence and Venice) through Ezio.

I like it but the awning was too small. It covered like two thirds of the Coliseum.

As a collector, I try to find items just like these-items that very rarely survive decomposition or destruction. I’ve amassed a collection of fossils, figurines, jewelry and pottery, but wood is very hard to find and expensive for obvious reasons. This video was definitely a treat. Thanks for sharing.