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Welcome to the city of Rome.

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This beautiful city
has been inhabited

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by humans for three millennia.

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And on this course,
we're going to be looking

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at Rome at its
pomp, at its height

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about 2,000 years ago,
when the emperors here

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ruled a vast swathe of
territory from Hadrian's Wall

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to the Nile Delta.

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You might well think
of Rome as a city

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of monuments, the Colosseum, the
Fora, the arches, the columns,

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these grand statements
of power and wealth,

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the busy arterial roads,
all those roads leading

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to Rome and from Rome.

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But while we're
doing that, we're

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going to be looking at it as
a working city, a living city,

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trying to tease out the evidence
for those non-grand monuments,

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the aqueducts, the sewers, the
street fountains, the apartment

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blocks, the warehouses, all
the stuff that sustained

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the life of the city, that made
possible that lovely veneer

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of grand monuments on the top.

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We're going to be looking
at a huge, 3D digital model

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of the ancient city that I have
built over the last few years

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at the University of Reading
for teaching my students.

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And by flying around this
model or walking through it,

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we can get a glimpse or a
sense of how the city may have

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appeared all those years ago.

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