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Dr Matthew Nicholls Senior Lecturer, Classics ‘Virtual Rome’ Dr Matthew Nicholls Senior Lecturer, Classics. Thursday, 2 August 12 Roman library: Timgad, Algeria Thursday, 2 August 12 Thursday, 2 August 12 Thursday, 2 August 12 Thursday, 2 August 12 Temple of Antoninus and Faustina Tiberside docks south of Aventine 6 Theatre of Marcellus Theatre of Pompey Thursday, 2 August 12 Forum Augustum, Rome 7 Thursday, 2 August 12 Thursday, 2 August 12 Baths of Diocletian, Rome - early 4th C AD Thursday, 2 August 12 Recreation of lighting conditions in the Theatre of Marcellus, Rome: 9.00am, 5th of June 17BC. Thursday, 2 August 12 Creation of a HOME TOURS SELECTING BUILDINGS EDITING LIST EMAIL TOUR customised tour Tours sound like Uhh.. I want to There are so many places to Maybe this I don't think I'll be carrying something useful create my own tour! visit! 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Sort by Modern Ancient Select a Timeline Category A-Z Select a Building Building View 3D touch to Free In ancient Tours Maps Buildings About 3D model map map buildind building description image Model rotate floating city Thursday, 2 August 12 Donor Day 2012 Thursday, 2 August 12 Thursday, 2 August 12 Breaking news FEBRUARY 2011 This month’s DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION History Headlines For your weekly news update, go to www.historyextra.com à Research your family history This month sees the fifth annual Who Do You Think You Are? Live event, between 25 and 27 February, giving you the chance to find out more about your ancestors. Celebrities such as Ancient Rome, as portrayed by Monty Don and Tony Robinson Dr Nicholls’s fly-through digital will be making an appearance, as model. In the foreground is the city’s well as experts in family history chariot racing stadium, which could who will be running sessions to hold a quarter of a million people help you on every step of your historical journey. Turn to page 86 for details on Virtual model to give historians our special reader offer – two tickets for £25 if you order before 19 February. their best view yet of ancient Rome à History of miracles now online ISTORIANS WILL soon University, and goes by the name Rome but also the most detailed, have the opportunity to of Virtual Rome. consisting of up to three gigabytes Researchers at the University of explore the seat of imperial Dr Nicholls is using both of data. Sheffield have launched a new H Roman power in greater detail historical and archaeological Thanks to Dr Nicholls’s work, online catalogue examining the history of miracles through the than ever before, now that a evidence to produce his historians will be able to better ages. The database includes over British classicist has started to reconstruction. This evidence understand how major fires 600 miracles spanning three create the world’s most up to date includes an ancient map of the spread within the city, and which continents and 800 years of computer model of ancient Rome. city which used to adorn an areas were susceptible to flooding. history, and allows for exploration The new 3D fly-through digital internal wall of Rome’s Temple of Virtual Rome will also enable of links between records, such as model – due for completion later scholars to explore, in high locations, gender and the this year – will offer scholars It offers a hugely definition, around 10 hectares of outcomes of the miracles. The unprecedented opportunities temples (more than 100 sacred information has already revealed to reconstruct key events in the structures in total), 45 hectares of that miracles became more detailed view of history of the imperial capital. imperial public bath houses, 130 diverse over the years and that the the ancient city lower classes appeared to be It will, for example, give them a hectares of industrial warehouses, more favourably treated by the better understanding of what 20 hectares of imperial palaces, saints. To view the catalogue, go to happened when, in AD 410, tens Peace. The 18x13 metre marble around 720 hectares of residential www.medievalportal.group. of thousands of Visigothic map, created at a scale of 1:240, tenement blocks, 15 hectares of shef.ac.uk barbarians gained entry to Rome originally included floor plans of theatres, arenas and stadia, and, fanning out through the virtually every major building in 14 hectares of markets, some à Rare Chartist street network, destroyed much Rome. However, today only 1,200 270 hectares of public and private pamphlet discovered of the city. fragments survive, accounting for gardens and villas, and 120 A 165-year-old pamphlet stored in The computer model will also around 12 per cent of the original. hectares of streets. a box at a Yorkshire public library allow historians to understand the Dr Nicholls has also used Virtual Rome is the first has been identified as being the huge pedestrian traffic and public high definition Geographic computer version of the ancient only surviving copy of a Chartist order issues caused by major Information Systems (GIS) imperial capital to be created hymnbook. The 16 hymns within public events in Rome – especially data on streets and ancient without the direct help of physical the document cover themes of chariot racing and gladiatorial monuments in modern Rome models. Two other computerised social justice and protests against displays. And it will reveal what to help with his digital models – the University of the exploitation of child labour and views of the city its inhabitants reconstruction. Virginia’s ‘Rome Reborn’ and the slavery. The pamphlet, which was had from various vantage points. So far, he has recreated around University of Caen’s ‘Plan of discovered by an academic from The ground-breaking model of 45 per cent of the ancient city. Rome’ – were originally made the University of Manchester, can be viewed online at one of the world’s greatest ancient When his model is finally from laser scans of existing early www.calderdale.gov.uk/wtw/ metropolises is being created by complete, it will not only be the and mid-20th century physical Dr Matthew Nicholls of Reading most up-to-date reconstruction of models. David Keys XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 14 BBC History Magazine Thursday, 2 August 12 Thursday, 2 August 12 Inchtuthil Roman fort Thursday, 2 August 12 Inchtuthil Roman fort Thursday, 2 August 12 Thursday, 2 August 12.
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