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Rome Reborn

Rome Reborn
Mission Rome Reborn is an international initiative whose goal is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 B.C.) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550). With the advice of an international Scientific Advisory Committee, the leaders of the project decided that A.D. 320 was the best moment in time to begin the work of modeling. History Since 1997, the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory of the University of Virginia (VWHL), the UCLA Experiential Technology Center (ETC), the Reverse Engineering Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, the Ausonius Institute of the CNRS and the University of Bordeaux-3, and the University of Caen have collaborated on a project to create a digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in late antiquity. Purpose of the 3D model Constituent parts of the model The digital model reflects the sources of our knowledge about ancient Rome.

4 enlaces para estudiar el Imperio Romano en Internet Estudiar el crecimiento y la caída del Imperio Romano puede ser una experiencia realmente interesante para aprender varias lecciones que pueden aplicarse en nuestro día a día, principalmente relacionadas con la necesidad de un sistema de gestión eficiente y libre de corrupción. En la web hay miles de sitios dedicados a este tema, y aquí os quiero traer cuatro especialmente interesantes. - omnesviae.org - Para conocer las principales ciudades y carreteras, siendo posible buscar rutas especificando origen y destino. Los datos son de la Tabula Peutingeriana. - Museo del Capitolio - Un museo con una web repleta de historias y fotografías para conocer mejor el día a día de aquella sociedad. - Documental PBS - Un documental de casi una hora de duración, uno de los muchos ejemplos que pueden encontrarse en Youtube. - Roma antigua en 3D - Con figuras en 3D podemos usar google earth para conocer mejor el año 320 a.C. Por supuesto, estáis invitados a ampliar la lista en los comentarios.

Ancient Greece Stoa poikilé Early Byzantine Art Early Byzantine Art As you know, Rome was the capitol of the Roman Empire until the era of Constantine. In 324, Constantine moved the capital from Rome to the Greek City of Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople. Things were fine for awhile, but by the 5th century of the common era, things began to change.The West was under attack by the barbarians and ultimately fell apart. The cities that were part of the Roman empire declined in population or simply died. Around 527, Justinian came to the throne in the East — the part of the Roman empire that had its capitol at Byzantium. The center scene here is the Adventus — Justinian is on horseback, with a barbarian begging for mercy. This is standard Roman imperial imagery — but juxtaposed with Christian imagery. Justinian did not see himself as presiding over a period of decline. At the time of Justinian’s reign, Constantinople was a large city of about 1.5 million people. All of this created a good deal of public discontent.

Beginner's guide to archaeology | Science Archaeology on television can seem like an activity for geeks in white coats and blokes in over-sized jumpers. But its range of activities is so wide – from laboratory to museum, from excavation to historic building – almost anyone can find a welcome somewhere. Master our quick guide, and you will soon sound like a proper digger. Key concepts Site: A place where something happened in the past that could be or is the subject of excavation. Evaluation: Research, including the digging of narrow "trial trenches" (often with machines), to establish the quality of preservation at a site and its significance (Time Team digs are often described as evaluations). Excavation: The real McCoy, from a few days digging in a farmyard, to years investigating 75 hectares (185 acres) by 80 field archaeologists, with a laboratory and 27 computers on site, prior to the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5. Fill: Disturbed earth, rubble, etc, found beneath the surface, indicative of human activity. Key stages of a dig

Quantitative chemistry Quantitative chemistry is a very important branch of chemistry because it enables chemists to calculate known quantities of materials. For example, how much product can be made from a known starting material or how much of a given component is present in a sample. Quantitative analysis is any method used for determining the amount of a chemical in a sample. The amount is always expressed as a number with appropriate units. An acid-base titration is an example of quantitative analysis. In this module you will learn about the core ideas or building blocks that are required for a deep understanding of quantitative chemistry.

Ten Popular Mind Control Techniques Used Today The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has been orchestrated by those who study human behavior in order to bend large populations to the will of a small “elite” group. Today, we have entered a perilous phase where mind control has taken on a physical, scientific dimension that threatens to become a permanent state if we do not become aware of the tools at the disposal of the technocratic dictatorship unfolding on a worldwide scale. Modern mind control is both technological and psychological. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. A concerted effort is underway to manage and predict human behavior so that the social scientists and the dictatorial elite can control the masses and protect themselves from the fallout of a fully awake free humanity.

Real psychics: Criminal profiling and the F.B.I. On November 16, 1940, workers at the Consolidated Edison building on West Sixty-fourth Street in Manhattan found a homemade pipe bomb on a windowsill. Attached was a note: “Con Edison crooks, this is for you.” In September of 1941, a second bomb was found, on Nineteenth Street, just a few blocks from Con Edison’s headquarters, near Union Square. Brussel was a Freudian. He began to leaf through the case materials. Brussel waited a moment, and then, in a scene that has become legendary among criminal profilers, he made a prediction: “One more thing.” A month later, George Metesky was arrested by police in connection with the New York City bombings. In a new book, “Inside the Mind of BTK,” the eminent F.B.I. criminal profiler John Douglas tells the story of a serial killer who stalked the streets of Wichita, Kansas, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties. The meeting, Douglas writes, was held in a first-floor conference room of the F.B.I.’s forensic-science building. And so he did.

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