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Ancient Reconstruction of the Pompeii Forum
Details of work in progress on a project to bring structural engineering principles to bear on archaeological questions concerning the reconstruction of the ancient city of Pompeii following a severe earthquake in 62 AD, seventeen years before the famous eruption of Vesuvius buried the city in 79 AD.
http://urban.arch.virginia.edu/struct/pompeii/|

Ancient Roman Architecture
A Great Buildings Online site, covering Roman architecture. Includes links to entries on individual buildings with full details and images, and in some cases 3-D models.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/roman.html|

Circus Maximus
A virtual reality reconstruction of the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome.
http://australis.www2.50megs.com/Maximus/Max.html|

Digital Roman Forum
A digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity, created by the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory (CVR Lab). Buildings of interest can be selected from a map, an overhead view of the model, or an aerial photograph for more information. Reconstructions can also be browsed by the source where they were mentioned, function or type. Each building has modelled images, photos, and a lot of supporting information, including geospatial data. Requires Flash and Quicktime.
http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/|

Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna
Computer reconstruction of the baths at Leptis Magna in what is now Libya, with extensive notes.
http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/virtualtour/hadrians_bath/|

Hadrian's Wall
More civil engineering than architecture, but still one of the great monuments of the Roman world, Hadrian's Wall crosses the North of England. The site includes information on the Wall itself and also tourist information.
http://www.hadrians-wall.org/|

Rome Reborn 1.0
Rome Reborn is an international project launched in 1996 at UCLA and since 2004 based at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), a research unit of the University of Virginia. The goal of the project is to create a real-time digital model illustrating the entire urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 BC) to the end of the Gothic Wars (552 AD). The site includes computer-generated still images, video clips and audio clips. Uses Flash.
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/|

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