Google Earth Launches Ancient Rome 3D Layer

Posted on November 12, 2008

You can see Rome as it looked in 320 AD with Google's new Ancient Rome 3D Layer. Here's some of what you can do with the Ancient Rome 3D layer.

Fly into Rome as it looked in 320 A.D.
Tour the interior of famous buildings.
Visit the sites in 3D such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and the Forum of Julius Caesar.
Learn about how the Romans lived.

Below is a video that shows you some of the buildings and provides an introduction to its Ancient Rome layer. The Google Earth Blog has a detailed description of this very cool new Google Earth offering.

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