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Related: About this forumWhat Did Ancient Rome Look Like? (Cinematic Animation)
Also, here's a cinematic animation of Ancient Egypt:
The architecture is still amazing, IMHO.
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What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? (Cinematic Animation) (Original Post)
barbaraann
Jul 2023
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Scrivener7
(53,221 posts)1. Beautiful!!
Karadeniz
(23,558 posts)2. Wow!!!
Doc Sportello
(7,962 posts)3. Way cool!
It really brings ancient Rome to life.
bahboo
(16,953 posts)4. amazing....
Rome looks almost modern at times....
DBoon
(23,179 posts)5. Didn't the Romans paint their statues to be colorfully lifelike?
I heard they were not originally white - that happened after the thousand or so years before Europeans rediscovered Roman sculpture, during which time the paint vanished.
Greek architecture and statues were colorfully painted, too.
Kid Berwyn
(18,370 posts)7. Amazing perspectives. Thank you!
The interconnected and detailed reality always is better than the fragments we use to build beliefs.
barbaraann
(9,289 posts)8. You're welcome!
I just posted another one on Greece.
snot
(10,820 posts)9. Enjoyable; but...
I think they're indulging in a bit of poetic license. The one on Rome includes a building that appears to have at least a dozen floors, & the internet says 9 floors was the tallest.