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Archaeologist takes 36 years to assemble accurate model of Ancient Rome
Little is left of what Rome was, thousands of years ago, when it was the most powerful city in the world. But the Italian archaeologist Italo Gismondi was able to put up with great precision the ancient landscape of Rome in the 4th century AD at the time of Constantine I when the city reached its greatest size.
It was 36 years of meticulous work. That is, three times more than the Colosseum took to be built. It was commissioned in 1933 by Mussolini to commemorate the birth of Augustus (63 BC). Using a 1901 map by Rodolfo Lanciani, Gismondi was able to complete the main core in 1950. The other parts were later built until the model was completed in 1971. Today it is known as one of the most important references in Rome Old.
The model is on display at the Museum of Roman Civilization in the Italian capital and is known as the Plastico di Roma Imperiale. Made in plaster, it is on a scale of 1: 250 and is just over 16 meters long. It was used by Ridley Scott to film some scenes from The Gladiator. Planet Magazine-Brazil