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Aerial Views of Ancient Rome

November 13, 2008 – 11:57 am

Leave it to Google to continue to make geography cool and engaging.
Yesterday, Google revealed the new Ancient Rome 3D layer, which allows viewers to “fly” over the city as it was during the heyday of the Forum and Colosseum. With this new layer, Google is also encouraging educators to use Ancient Rome 3D in their [...]

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Pompeii By Night

June 9, 2008 – 12:29 pm

Question: What’s eerier than surveying the ruins of Pompeii? Answering: Visiting them at night.
According to the ansa.it news service, Pompeii will once again offer its popular “Sound-and-Light” tour, a one-hour look at the ancient Roman city complete with ambient music, flood-lit ruins, and a video simulation of the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed the city [...]

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Day Trip to Pompeii from Rome

March 11, 2008 – 6:21 am

 
My friend Tom recently asked me if I knew of any good daytrips to Pompeii from Rome. When I last visited Pompeii, I did it myself: taking the morning train to Naples then Pompeii and doing the reverse in the evening. My tour of Pompeii was solo and without a guide; quite frankly, [...]

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Roman Forum: No Longer Free

February 29, 2008 – 8:51 am

Well, it was fun while it lasted. According to the folks at Dream of Italy and Tony Polzer from 3 Milennia Tours, the Roman Forum will begin to charge admission as of March 9th. Tony lays out the facts, including admission and access, on the Slow Travel forum.
We have not been able to independently confirm this [...]

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What’s Old Is New Again: Rome’s Via Appia Antica

February 7, 2008 – 6:58 am

Now that we’ve entered the Holy Season, tourism to Rome is going to start heating up again quite quickly. Of course, you can follow the pilgrimage throngs around the Lenten Station circuit. Or, you can travel outside the city walls to check out the Via Appia Antica. 
David Farley’s one-day itinerary along the ancient road recently [...]

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Ancient Romulus Cave Found

November 21, 2007 – 10:17 am

If you believe the legend that Rome was founded more than 2,000 years ago by the twins Romulus and Remus (who are seen suckling a she-wolf in Rome’s famous “logo”), then word that scientists have found the Lupercale will astonish you.
According to Reuters, archeologists restoring the ancient Palace of Augustus on the Palatine hill found [...]

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2,000 Years of Style in Rome

July 6, 2007 – 2:54 pm

 
Way back in 1999, I remember walking up to the pile of rubble and marble that was the Ara Pacis and feeling amazed that such an ancient monument had been left so lonesome on the banks of the Tiber to weather the elements. Most of the rest of Rome’s monuments were under scaffolding at that [...]

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Ancient Rome Rebuilt

June 12, 2007 – 2:01 pm

Thanks to historians, architects, archeologists and other scholars at the University of Virginia and UCLA, ancient history buffs can virtually explore the wonders of Rome, including the Colosseum and the Forum. Rome Reborn 1.0 is a digital model of Eternal City, and one of the most comprehensive representations of the ancient city ever assembled. The [...]

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Going Underground

June 7, 2007 – 4:21 am

Wow…here’s a link for the more morbid - or more scholarly - Italophiles. The International Catacomb Society, based out of Massachusetts, has an impressive website full of information on Roman catacombs within and outside of the Eternal City. Be sure to check out the interactive map section. Simply fascinating.

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