The Dead Past Made Alive - Ancient Rome Visualised
Reconstruction of ancient Rome, shown from exactly the same point as picture number 13998753. In the foreground is the court of the Vestals House, home of the Order of Vestals, abolished in 394 A.D. Behind that, the circular Temple of Vesta where a sacred fire burned and beyond that, the Temple of Castor and Pollux. Then the Basilica Julia, begun by Julius Caesar and rebuilt by Augustus and Diocletian. Also shown is the Arch of Tiberius, the Temple of Saturn and in the distance, on the left, the Temple of Jupiter Capitoinus. On the right of the via Sacra are seen (from foreground to background), the Regia (official residence of the Pontifex Maximus), the Temple of Julius Caesar, the equestrian statue of Constantius II, the column of Phocas, the Rostra, the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Temples of Concord and Vespasian and finally, right at th back, the Tabularium, or Office of the Archives
