This is exactly what I remember it looking like. Well done.

Insane how rich this city looked in ancient times.Just Amazing buildings

Rome was truly a marvel of architecture and engineering. Fascinating video. Thank you.

Rome is such an amazing city. I’ve heard so many people say “oh there are too many tourists”.. but there’s a reason for that. It’s just so cool to walk around a corner and see the pantheon or colosseum. My step dad has family in Naples. So every time I’ve visited I think we have gone up to Rome as well.

Driving thru Rome at night I noticed the top windows of the Theatre of Marcellus and some were lighted. I asked my Italian friend why? He said those were people's apartments. Imagine that! People have apartments in a 2000 year old building! It really staggers the mind.

Rome Reborn isn't a "new" project. It's been around since the 90s ;o). But I do love that they keep updating it with new features, graphics, and little details. I used to dream they would allow their virtual model to be used by a quality game maker and we would get the Ancient Rome game we deserve in all its glorious immersion.

Before this app, we used to use an illustrated tourist book with transparency overlays of each photo or scene, showing how it looked in antiquity.

Ubisoft gave us a pretty impressive rendering of Rome during the Renaissance era in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, I had lots of fun just wandering around the city. And now Yorescape is actually giving us the Eternal City at the height of the Empire. Gorgeous!

Imagine what a time traveller from ancient Rome must feel like when he sees (more or less) all those marvelous buildings lying in ruins. You could comfort him that Rome and the Romans have influenced Europe and large parts of the world in more ways you can imagine. Seeing it like that, Rome never really has fallen. Past blends into present. That´s the aspect of Roman culture most fascinating to me.

You can tell by their inflections and enthusiasm, that this was a really fun and passionate project for them. Well done, really cool to see.

Having been to Rome about 5 years ago, I was amazed at how many buildings are still there, considering the wars that have taken place there over the centuries.

Ancient Rome looks better than most places around the world today.

I love Rome! I’ve been there twice. I’d live there if I could! It’s like going back home …

This is a great idea but the way it's presented I had difficulty correlating what we have today with what it was. Better to show each structure separately as a before and after scenario.

It amazes me how architecture was so refined this early in human history

So cool to see modern-day and ancient views of the sites. Very educational.

Terrific! In the future, I hope they do a virtual rendering of ancient Rome's housing stock to get an idea of how the general populace lived.

Most magnificent city ever built to be fair.

Just missing the beautiful colors Rome had!

Amazing job! Congrats to those who made it.

Also, right before Christmas of 1991, my wife and I were in Rome. We went to a nighttime Christmas open air fair in the Piazza Navona that was once was the Stadium of Domitian. It started to rain, so we walked a few blocks eastward heading to the Metro station at the Colosseum but then it really started to rain. We followed some people who were going into what I thought was a large church. It actually was the Pantheon. I didn't even realize what it was until i was inside. It was amazing! And no rain was coming down from the hole in the roof even though a moment ago I was getting deluged. I stood there, looking up at the hole and amazed no rain was falling on me.

Great video! Thanks for all of your hard work, Darius!

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius."

I was visiting Rome last year with Uni-classmates. One of the most amazing trip I've ever done.

This is amazing. I was just in Rome and I really enjoyed seeing the forum and many other sites. This rendering brings a completely different perspective.

Amazing. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome maybe twice. Last time I was there they had fencing all around I think maybe because of vandalism, which really sucks. Please respect these real sites if you ever go. They belong to everyone.

I always thought about what it would be like to go back in time and observe what would transpire in a single day, it would be indeed fascinating!

Just a wake up call that civilization generally progress, but not linearly. It goes backwards from time to time. Quite nice. Thank you.

Fantastic rendering. I was there 5 years ago for my bucket list visit to rome. Stayed in hotel room right across street from colloseum with perfect view on it. It was tough to imagine what all those ruins looked like in their glory years, but this video did it well. I wish they would restore one slice of a colloseum section as it was back in the day so visitors can envision themselves as part of it then. SAme goes for Pompeii......maybe restore one high end home there, a mid tier one and a lower tier one plus one or two of the businesses. There are so many, this would be such a cool experience for the people coming to see it.

I wish cities were still made like this

Honestly .. this is an amazing idea. I cant wait to see those ancient wonders of the world brough back to life. Damn I would pay for such content. Cheers folks.

The Time Warps are AMAZING! ❤

Such a beautiful city

Thank you so much for this. Spectacular work !!

Very interesting, love watching the rendering of what may/ has been. Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Just got back from Rome. And watching this really gives perspective into what you see there. So thank you for that. Sadly... the ruins are so badly preserved and so little is actually left today, that looking at it from the Roman Forum, where the center or Rome was (At least from what I read there), its nearly impossible to actually imagine what it all looked like. So little is left. And the looters, pillagers, the Church (Which did both) and many others thru the centuries have take and destroyed so much to form other buildings. It was all left there in the dirt to decay for ages, before being excavated and preserved today. Even the population of Rome use to take material from the ancient buildings to build what ever they needed at the time.

Really enjoy this. Helps a lot in appreciating what still remains. Thanks.

I seldom use this adj.-but this is truly magnificent! Thank you for sharing this vision with folks worldwide. May collective interest & funding continue to flow, and allow future projects like this to come to fruition. 🌍 🌎

Wow! This is really cool! The reconstructions are really beautiful! I really like the aesthetics of Roman style and architecture, I wish there was more of it today.

I lived in Rome for 4 months to study its architecture as part of my master’s degree back in 2022… during the first days I was stunned by the mere sight of the Ruins (and also the Renaissance buildings). The impact will last forever in me.

that is really cool, to see Ancient Rome. Amazing

So grateful to you and for the efforts that’s gone in making this video. Thank you so much for the visuals It’s simply Amazing

Very cool! I’ve been to Rome twice . Fascinating city. I wish they would restore the coliseum and some of the other buildings to their original glory 😎😎😎

Thank you for making this, I'll check it out

great job with this project and channel!!!

Love the enthusiasm of the narrator!

I'm assuming in the model trees are put wherever there is uncertainty although I'd have to say that this might be somewhat deceiving considering that: - Rome would have been very densely populated. Estimates I've seen place it between 18.000 and 70.000 people per square km - The city would have extended up to the walls and even outside of them. Further outside most of the surrounding countryside would have been cultivated. - Trees were in very high demand since wood was used for heating (in charcoal form aswell), cooking, construction (as a structural material, for scaffolding and cranes and for baking bricks and melting metals), shipbuilding (there are still entire forests that were artificially planted for this purpose), for the production of pottery and most of the tools and furniture and so on. So much so that, although the extent is debated, deforestation is widely registered across the mediterranean sea during ancient times. Thermal baths alone were consuming huge amounts of fuel. This would have been mitigated by forest management and there were forests planted or maintained for various purposes both by privates and state owned. A lot of wood would have been imported to Rome even from very far away (mostly by sea). Lucretius in De Rerum Natura might give us a glimpse on how they perceived their landscape and the anthropic intervention in nature: "Then one after another they essayed ways of tilling their smiling plot, and saw the earth tame wild fruits with tender care and fond tilling. And day by day they would constrain the woods more and more to retire up the mountains, and to give up the land beneath to tilth, that on hills and plains they might have meadows, pools, streams, crops, and glad vineyards, and the grey belt of olives might run between with its clear line, spreading over hillocks and hollows and plains; even as now you see all the land clear marked with diverse beauties, where men make it bright by planting it here and there with sweet fruit-trees, and fence it by planting it all round with fruitful shrubs." The model itself is very intriguing. One thing i'd hope to see more and more in the future is "dirtier" reconstructions. textures and props that would convey the image of a crowded, somewhat dirty, thriving metropolis with smoke rising, constructions and renovations constantly ongoing, monuments that were centuries old and aging. Most of the time we are presented models where everything is new, polished and shiny and the city seem to exist completed and perfect as if in a mythological realm out of time. Still it is very helpful to give information about what was where and what shape and size it had and of course many details in a more vibrant representation would have to be somewhat speculated.

In a way, viewing ancient Rome from above using Timewarp really looks like a futuristic city.

As a Roman Law Channel, I celebrate such project.Usually people say Rome was colorful, not marble white, but I wonder they afforded the cost of pigments to make the buildings colored (expensive even for today standarts, try to paint your house blue or yellow to see the cost). But congratulatios for adding trees. People forget the trees all time.

Wow you made my old house! It brings back so many memories of the empire

It is amazing to visit Rome and realize how much of it has been lost. If you want to know where all the marble went just look to St. Peter's.

Amazing software. I like how the city evolved rather haphazardly. It just adds to the charm.

Absolutely great work! Thanks a lot!

Beautiful city. I need a 'Roman Holiday'! now 🎉

WOW!!! Totally Amazing! 👏

Fantastic video and thanks for posting 🏛️👏

Thank you very much for the video. I wish I had known about the app during my recent trip to Rome from October 10th to 22nd. I will have to come back to Rome next year to test it out. 😊

Amazing to see how city preserved after more than 2,000 years. Recently Rome still looks similar from bird eyes' view with the 2 millenniums ago

It looked so modern. This is so cool

What a city! Eternal indeed!

Thank you. So much clearer to imagine now!

This was a fascinating and exciting video. It's amazing what an accurate and detailed virtual reconstruction of ancient Rome can be achieved through virtual reality. Actually feeling like I was walking through the streets and locations of old Rome was very immersive. This emerging technology has so much potential to help introduce history in a deeply experiential and insightful way. Overall the video showcased how virtual reality can truly bring history to life. It will be incredible to see where this type of simulation of the past can be taken in the future.

They couldn't make such cities in this quality today even if they wanted to, amazing how this might have looked in those days.

Exellente video, thanks to post this. Great job

Beautiful video!

Roman culture is inherited by every one!

😮😮😮 such beautiful architecture.

I really think that someone should make a recreation of this as a theme park and make it so that it’s interactive where you feel like you’re immersed there. Everyone gets to wear a tunic or toga. Having gladiator fights similar to medieval times

WOW! Thank you for sharing this.

What's baffling me is how amazing and well made these structures are and the sheer size and detail and the places they had to get these. its hard to imagine that at the time their methods were advanced and another thing is no electricity! all these massive structures and very well made city and town and no electricity

This was really cool! It would be fun if you could show the exact same perspective shots from Ancient Rome compared with current Rome for some of these as well

This is awesome!!! Thank you

It's so clean.

YESSS! Now do tenochitlan, babylon, and carthage!

its quite striking how the individual buildings had very little axis alignment with eachother.

The Library at Alexandria. I wish that could be recreated to present day. If their was one thing I would like brought back from the loss, it would be that Library. A great many things could have been explained in all those writings and scrolls.

Asombroso video.... Gracias x compartirlo y darnos, a conocer x este medio como era la Roma Antigua... Impresionante y muy bella👌👍❤️

Dziękuję za ten wykład, bardzo ciekawy ❤

I am left dreaming from this virtual tour.

What a fantastic video!

The best most amazing influential Empire ever.

They were so advanced. Their architecture and aqueduct designs was so beautiful. Far more beautiful and advanced than current Africa today

Rome is beautiful till this day...... imagine seeing it back then, when all this beauty was just recently built

Very cool! My wife and are owing to France in May and will visit Italy too.

Fantastic architecture thousands of years ago , they were obviously more evolved when it came to architecture and many other things in comparison to us in this day and age

Been there twice and it is fantastic

Just to add. . . these structures were constantly being built. Lots of construction and commotion. Also, the Roman legion soldiers were everywhere. There was a state of hustle and bustle going on.

This is an amazing model of Ancient Rome, thank you for sharing. Approximately what is the year that this model portrays? I'm also interested in how this model compares to Gismondi's model?

Magnificent - thanks for sharing!

Brilliant and very nicely narrated, although I have heard historians say that Mussolini was the instigator of the restoration of Ancient Rome, not the destroyer of it. As a nationalist, he loved Rome's former greatness and was inspired by it.

Very interesting! But would be very interesting to see how the ordinary romans houses, streets etc. looked like

It seems like a lot of the "suburbs" are still missing in this the ~million people did have to live somewhere and most of central Rome seemed to have been occupied by public buildings.

🏛 Excellent tour/recreations! 🏛

Stunning

Nexts step- add all the paint and color

People say there is too many tourists. Honestly normally I would be on this side but the architecture is soo awe inspiring I forget they are

LOVE IT.. so cool, take me back.

Beautiful Rome❤

Ancient Rome must have struck visitors with awe!

That is fascinating! TBH Rome somehow looks smaller than I had imagined in my mind. Though I would have a hard time describing exactly what picture resided within me whenever it came to something like Rome. Perhaps it’s more of a feeling I had whenever the city within the context of its history was brought up. Something that this video brings to question for me though; is there a way to view the city’s decay in any meaningful way through time? I am left to wonder how or why certain buildings or structures met their demise. Was their end natural or man made? I am sure that throughout history, any generations snapshot of Rome was something of antiquity worth keeping, yet here we are reconstructing what we are able to and preserve the rest even if ruin. Was it always so? When did the population just give up with its preservation? Oh so many questions…