Play Caesar: Travel Ancient Rome with Stanford's Interactive Map | Open Culture - 26 views
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International School of Central Switzerland on 19 May 12Scholars of ancient history and IT experts at Stanford University have collaborated to create a novel way to study Ancient Rome. ORBIS, a geospatial network model, allows visitors to experience the strategy behind travel in antiquity. (Find a handy tutorial for using the system on the Web and YouTube). The ORBIS map includes about 750 mostly urban settlements of the Roman period