Friends, Romans, schoolchildren, lend me your ears! We come to tell you about a new computer program that re-creates the ancient city of Rome.

Scientists based at the University of Virginia recently created Rome Reborn, a 3-D computer model of Julius Caesar's hometown. It's the world's largest computer simulation, or copy, of an ancient city.

Just like Rome, this high-tech city wasn't built in a day. It took computer scientists more than 10 years to create the model. They pored over hundreds of maps and pictures to reproduce more than 7,000 sites. The ...

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