{"id":6278,"date":"2016-06-09T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:07:26","slug":"walk-ancient-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/walk-ancient-rome","title":{"rendered":"A walk through Ancient Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/romereborn.frischerconsulting.com\/about.php\">Rome Reborn<\/a>, an academic research project whose central mission is to create a full model of Rome at its greatest heights, working in conjunction with the Khan Academy. The goal is to take historical depictions of the city and create a true-to-life model of every period of Roman development, ranging from 1000 BC to 552 AD.<\/p>\n<div class=\"m-ad m-ad__article-body\">In the video, Indiana University professor Bernard Frischer (who leads the Rome Reborn project) explains that they chose to use 320 AD for this visualization because it was &#8220;the peak of Rome&#8217;s urban development.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"m-ad m-ad__article-body\"><\/div>\n<p>The most striking part of the video is the sheer scope and beauty of the city.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e_phjB19ZEg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ready to stand where Caesar stood? We can help! Take a look at one of our many tours to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/educational-tours\/rome-citta-eterna.aspx\">Rome<\/a><\/strong> or give us call at <strong>1.888.310.7120<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video was created by Rome Reborn, an academic research project whose central mission is to create a full model of Rome at its greatest heights, working in conjunction with the Khan Academy. The goal is to take historical depictions of the city and create a true-to-life model of every period of Roman development, ranging <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/walk-ancient-rome\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[399,345,58,75,17,128],"class_list":["post-6278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-ancient-rome","tag-educational-tours","tag-educational-travel","tag-history","tag-italy","tag-student-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6281,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}