What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? (Cinematic Animation) 

That is amazing. It really puts into perspective how much history there is, and how the United States hasn't been around to see most of it.

They was order tho ..

Seriously? That’s amazing

Mindblowing

@@HistorywithMrMink The USA is one of the oldest, continuously operating states with a continuous political system in the world. There aren't many countries, whose governments are continuously operating since the 1700's. For example, almost every modern European state had to be basically re-established after 1945, and many had to be re-established again after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian Federation, for example, in its modern state, has only existed since 1991, and its current president is only the third person to hold the office. So, politically, many European countries are very young. National history and culture are a whole different story though. In short, the USA is the oldest modern democracy, the oldest presidential republic with the oldest active constitution in history.

This like saying that modern Rome consists of tourist traps. Not a slum in sight.

Idk man being able to put glass on buildings and not having to soley rely on pillars is nice

@@sandran17 we still use pillars. They're just grey, metal, and formed in cube shapes. Have you never seen a beam or a column?

A lot of places on the Mediterranean still look like that. The Romans kind of invented concrete, though. Nothing is stopping anyone from painting it, though.

Wrong, plenty of modern beautiful cities e.g. Dubai, Singapore, Los Angeles, all colourful Green and White and Blue glass skyscrapers

None of the buildings shown in this video are Roman representations, but Greek ones...

@@juanragonzalez1810 the Greeks were nowhere near the Roman level of engineering

​@@antonio2130 Everything you see here is Greek architecture though

​@@antonio2130 the romans learned everything they know from the greeks, you are an ignorant idiot. Dont speak about things you have 0 clue about.

As well done as this is it's missing the true scale of the city. Rome was home to a million people. It's missing all of the apartment complexes (yes, apartments) and homes of the inhabitants including all of the societal infrastructure. Warehouses, libraries, parks, bars, restaurants, gyms, stables, markets, brothels, bath houses, public bathrooms, slaughter houses (typically pork), textile making (wool. cotton, etc.), food processing facilities (cheese making, fish sauce known as Garum, wine making, olive oil, bakeries, etc.) Not to mention the scale of the buildings are off, the colosseum could seat 50,000 people. The Circus Maximus (horse racing) could seat 300,000 people.

Wow 🤩 I would have never guessed 😆

@@David-se5ph That went over your head didn't it?

Good one, I literally laughed out loud!

Michael Komba I would actually put money on that bet 😂🤪

Bravo. 😁

No I believe it was "I came to rome a city of clay, and left it city of marble"

@@Thallivius no, it’s brick. The original Latin word used in the quote is “latericius” which means “bricks/brickwork”. It’s a reference to the fact that Rome during the era of the republic was mainly built using bricks, it was quite famous for the look actually. Full quote is this: “Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi” (Literal translation: “I leave marble that which I found brick”)

Alternate history: Augustus became a self-obsessed vegan with too much drrrip.

He was the best emperor ever

@@Thallivius Brick

As well as their floors, ceilings, walls, columns, pediments etc. they took a lot from the Etruscans. Most of Rome’s early kings were Etruscan.

Yes some were painted yet some weren't completely painted the difference between Roma and Greece is that the Italians didn't destroy many monuments and a lot of it was preserved intact I happened to have met an archeology student from Naples and she told me all about where she lived and how statues were preserved in the campiña not destroyed by the Catholic Church, which was a surprise to me.

this is egypt Alexandria

@Jake Haney I think it is supposed to be the Pharos at Ostia (port of Rome) there were a lot of these in the ancient world I think there is one in Spain that is virtually intact.

but they did get washed out rather quickly, and by later times unpainted statues were the custom

@Biff Himmler my god after a year you still think that meme is funny? Maybe you're the boomer

@Biff Himmler seems like you have a narrow perspective on your world it must be safe though to have a small world

My first thought was also that it was too clean. Still, a wonderful representation of ancient Rome. After all, it was the center of the western world for centuries, so it had to be extravagant.

@Marquis di Veneziano vicomte d'Arfort C'est forcément inexacte puisqu'il ne s'agit pas de Rome, mais d'Alexandrie.

Marquis di Veneziano vicomte d'Arfort bien sûr obviousement es imposible a vraiment capturer exactment cette sigle

Not just bright, realistic.

Yes everyone forgets that. What an amazing place to live - if you were wealthy.

@@RodFleming-World Lots of amazing things to see and enjoy even if you were poor. Chariot races and gladiatorial games were attended by everyone. And everyone was expected to clean themselves at the hot baths every day, even poor people and slaves.

Yup good point

@@SithLord2066 Yeah. The incomparable excitement of getting to the ground court of Colosseum facing lions and other beasts.

Rome was in Technicolor, everything else was black and white.

Actually colours were invented in 1968

said bkd the word color

this is because tv was black and white in the seventies... :D

I thought the same when i was a kid 🤣🤣

I'm sorry but l have to inform you that you'd probably miss some of it and _not_ manage to see it all. You might miss looking under some staircases for instance, or perhaps overlook a garden shed or maybe omit a hidden tree house.

@@SofaKingShit It goes without saying Imeant I want to see the historical places. I didn't mean that literally.

@@SofaKingShit No need to write a “witty” comment like that.

@@SofaKingShit princeps obvious over here

I hope you get to go to Italy! I went to Rome in 1994 with a Perillo Tour. I think I was the only one in the group who did not have Italian ancestry. The Vatican Museum was great! I stayed almost a whole day in the Forum. Venice is such a gorgeous city too. I first went there as a teen in 1972 and then again in 1994. Go for it!

Needs more Color and someone chasing a Peacock for dinner.

Because its not ancient roman. Its hellenistic egypt from the same time period as cleopatra

Ur an ancient Roman?

Hello from 435 AD. Rome was dirty and a mess then. No wonder we were overrun. my own troops wanted to run so badly that I was ended as they retreated.

Simone Yes.

He goes by the name of Bayek..

Nothing is true, everything is permitted

Ayyeeee lol i was looking for Assassins crees comments finally someone who gets it

Never speak of the hidden ones

Sonata Plays and hes a medjay

Precisely

@Siddarth B S Whereas Antiquity was about war for empire, with many more slaves.

Rome had the ritual Slaughter of the weak, General debauchery, shorter average lifespans,

@@universalflamethrower6342 ok, ot Rome, but Ancient times in general. Romans were problematic people.

@@ЛивияФилипова our standards are very much Colored by Christianity and more recently Wokianity, perhaps I shouldn't have been judgemental about the Romans. If I was born in Ancient Rome I would have probably acted like an Ancient Roman.

There are a lot of videos already on youtube about that.

you should probably do your own research, not that difficult.

​@janetannerevans2320 thank you so much for your courteous reply to my simple suggestion on how to expand the impact of the video.

Smoke a joint and take stroll in ancient rome...awesome

@@afgmvp *hits blunt*

Would be fantastic. Especially because of the fact that the awful smell and the dangers of being robbed are absent

You can play it , it's a videogame

currently I am making a sci-fi fantasy vr game with romans, huns and germanic, maybe you'll find it this year :D

Literaly, the romans was a car civylization 😂 like murica today

In fact u cant see any car in the video so what the fuck. Look It Up Román engeniring. The roads were not in Stone and they do no ride horses only in battle

​@@liknspin3432 No it wasn't. They didn't have automobiles back then! Only chariots and horse and buggy transportation.

Nice woke slogan, but no. Cities built so people can move in cars are also cities built for people. It's like assuming La Bastida archeological site in Totana was a better eco-woke-nice-bullshit-sustainable city than Rome (chariots + horses) because people could ONLY walk to places. Cars are amazing. Please, do not use them.

@@albers1How is one supposed to marvel at the beauty of traditional inner cities when everywhere you go there are parking lots with cars blocking the view? Cities were bulldozed and rebuilt for the car, even in the United States.

That buggy game? Lmaooo

Quatre Vingt when was the last time you played it? I started it this year and the bug are all gone. Smooth gameplay for me.

@@calmexit6483 early last year i think, the game was a mess, texture didnt appears at 2 metters, mod didnt work because of the new game version, bug everywhere... The forest looked nice tho, but the towns... And i never understood the gameplay 😅 but thats on me

Quatre Vingt I’m sure you’d love it now!

@@calmexit6483 im good with Bannerlord 😂

Ancient rome is the city and the empire 😉

@@rodrigoaguiar9264 ah you're right

@@WHY-xd5zk take it easy we are just history nerds kidding around :)

@Rajesh Venki you know there is something called Ostia right?

@@rodrigoaguiar9264 Yeah but the Romans didnt build it.

I agree. This is an idealization.

The worst part was the noise. "Only the rich can afford to sleep in Rome".

Kid.

And when they heard this strange (and not historical) music, floating in the air..

They assumed it was an emissary of Zeus and acted like nothing was going on, lest they be struck down.

@@raksh9 *Jupiter/Iovian

@@samuelmendoza9356 Ah yes, true.

@Adán Romero or a stolen idea from the Greeks

Because they believed in perfection and not hastily done.

Partly because your definition of “taste” is based on architecture designed by people imitating what they know about Ancient Rome.

Probably because stuff took so much more time to create, it had to "Wow" all, or else, what was the point?

Because it was before the invention of plastic and wood laminate. Also they had thousands of slaves to threaten to get it just right no matter how many years it took. LOL

They might not have been, at least not to the extent that we imagine. There's a tendency to look back on certain parts of the past with an idealized lens.

Worse, it's a cheap, chinese-plastic imitation in most cases....

Actually copied most new classical buildings take inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture

It's more like the last hundred years...

Technologically better but modernity seems to have very little regard for 'beauty', which ancients cared deeply for.

Maybe aesthetically worse (although it's a matter of taste), but modern architecture is definitely more functional, cheaper, and consequently more accessible to far more people.

paradise for the super rich

it wasnt all that easy living there back then even if it looks good

Ancient Rome, for all its beauty was no paradise! There were some enviable things about it if you were wealthy.

Try travelling back..lol

We know very little of the kingdom. It was more of a town than a city. Not much to see.

probably a few huts and some farms

When did Rome as we know it started?

@@ikagura What do you mean by "as we know it"? The conventional founding date of Rome is 753BC. If you mean with all the marble buildings, mainly started under the reign of the first emperor, Augustus: 24BC-14AD Usually considered at its peak in the 2nd century, which I would say is what is depicted in this vid. Depends what you mean.

Is that ironic?

why not? i mean red is everywhere in ancient rome, like shield for example

@@nc6379 its clearly ironic, he is pointing out the stereotype

@Christian Slayer eh. I doubt they painted everything in their cities red.

@@eduardofreitas8336 what stereotype?

one rich guy hung some plants over walls. big deal. that isn't a civilization with art, music, dance, CULTURE. it's rubbish.

@@arielstrafing5225 Hey, he did it to make his wife happy. She came from the mountains. It became an ancient tourist trap. You know, like the Eiffel tower, an oversized erector set.

@@arielstrafing5225 Babylon was the first country to have a constitution and they invented writing so yes it is a civilization.

@@alwa8 he is too salty

@@arielstrafing5225 You need help removing the pitchfork that is stuffed up your ass?

They aren't on Assassins Creed origins, which is where all this footage is from.

@@Connor_JR all of this footage from assassin Creed origin ?

You're so right!

Dantes inferno 👹

This isn't his. This is from a video game.

E' un videogioco e questa non è Roma ma Alessandria in Egitto

We hadn't lost it, though? Many medieval Cathedrals do have similar size.

This is a videogame, chump

I can imagine not long in the future where school kids will able to do that in history class, actual VR with a voiceover explaining the situation, how the architecture was built, the historical figures, dress, politics etc, would be amazing.

@@aldunlop4622 that reminds me of a simpsons episode that I once saw

Seria glorioso, como en los tiempos de gloria de Roma.

Why would you like that? You're were you have to be in the time & place you are meant to live in.... You would have never met the wonderful people or idiots (you'll think im this) lol you have met!

That would definitely suck for a woman.

Sadly destroyed by pagan barabarian europeans...

@Yesmer - yes, the used the urine (ammonia) to clean but they also used water to rinse afterwards.

This isn't the Rome, rather an "insert generic roman empire city". And yep, being a woman wasn't a good idea unless you were of high descent. But... You soon would be, by knowing so much relative to most of them. Yep, would be cool unless you infect them. It was cleaner than most make it be, remember Archimedes had his evrika moment in a bathtub, a forced wash too.

ITS A VIDEOGAME

@Wayne Campeau I agree I was thinking the same things.Pretty, though. the Tv e series Rome I think did a better job with the looks

It was nicely made but, to me, it looked more like a generic Roman city. There was not a lot that was identifiable as being Rome and I'm pretty sure it didn't have a lighthouse.

@Aymen El Harrachi Maybe so but the game was still supposed to look like ancient Rome, but didn't.

@Reunite The British Empire What are you talking about? The title of the video is "what did ancient Rome look like?" and the description by says "What Did Ancient Rome Really Look Like? Watch this Ancient Rome reconstruction featuring realistic 3D animation to find out. See *_exactly_* how ancient Rome looked" Rome, ancient or otherwise, is not in "Graecia" (or even Egypt. as you wrote before you edited your comment) Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece were very different places, they can't all be just lumped together as "the Olden Days"

​@Reunite The British Empire Don't try to patronise me because if that is how you want to play things, I can assure you, you have more than met your match. Of course I know what clickbait is, but even then, if the description says "see exactly what ancient Rome looked like" i'd expect the video to show what ancient Rome looked like. Try to cut down on the ad hominem attacks if you want to be taken seriously.

The simulation was still in its early stages, now we have reached hyper realism.

Ur idiiot its not cgi its game footage

I can imagine when millenial kid go to this city somehow, first thing they asked : " what's the wifi password?? "

Nope. They had designs that were used in the renaissance period. You can go and check them out in Venice if you like.

I am speaking of the respect of the ancient plant and monuments in Rome. This video does not respect them almost at all. Of course the rendering of single monuments has got the right decorations and styles , but the monument itself is often non a real one in Rome… think there is also the Pharus of Alessandria 😂

Beautiful, but lately it is said the statues were painted!

@@ArturoEscorza Thank you for that lucid rebuttal of my argument; I shall fall on my sword immediately out of remorse for failing to merit even a morsel of respect from such an erudite contributor.

@@ponybottle - Sorry but you deserved it. They spent hundreds of hours creating something amazing for free and all you can do is criticise it without even bothering to read the title. Snotty people like you make the world a miserable place, especially for creative people. You produce nothing creative of your own but just stop long enough to tear down the work of others. Even in your rebuttal, your only instinct is to condescend and you use a couple of big words so you can leave feeling superior about yourself. You are what we call in Scotland a tosser.

@@AnyoneCanSee I'm sure you're correct, I'll just fall on my sword a second time in recompense. As to my being a 'tosser' ( I believe the equivalent term in my part of the world is 'wanker'?) - I would have to confess I have always considered myself to be a wanker, but it is always gratifying to have one's opinion confirmed by an expert in the field.

@3MM4 P33L Thanks for that contribution. I couldn't care less for your opinion. No wait! I just did....

Anyone who thinks that is clearly a moron. The likes of Rome had a well functioning empire with trade and commerce that wouldn’t be seen until the 15-16th century. A man from Ancient Greece figured out (roughly) the circumference of the earth with a stick. The average brain has shrunk since these time’s because people knew how to SURVIVE. Our ancestors were awesome, we are backward in a lot of ways compared to them.

@@troygrindley3793 While I think this perception is flawed, I don't find people moronic who may believe it...sheesh. I was just illustrating a point but there's no need to be arrogant and condescending to other people who may not think like we both do about our ancestors...

Things certainly looked a lot more beautiful back in those good old days of slavery.

Jeremy Ashford it was skilled labor not slavery

@@jeremyashford2145 Gracious. Can't even make a harmless comment anymore about a passion of mine without someone coming along to spread their negativity.

Pat Chuez really is

It’s because people aren’t destroying buildings like today.

Also because this is a highly idealized version of something that no one has direct experience of

Older cities tend to be more beautiful, I think. I'm not sure why. Maybe because kings/ rulers designed them beautifully to show off. And maybe one reason they could afford to build such nice things was because of slave labor... 😕 like I think the Colosseum was built by slaves

yeah i wish that architecture would be valued today as much as it was back then

With some images of Athens as well?

Without the slaves and idolatry I’d say it was a nice time

A time before the Zionist

@@juanon755 slaves were not forced , it was job to pay off what was owed . Rome destroyed itself with power hungry pysco emperors

@@Danfranco98 That's one of the ways slavery did happen but most of the time it was forced. People captured in battle were sold into slavery

With slave

Era una metropoli cosmopolita... Caos, rumore, ingorghi stradali... Sovrappopolazione,, odori sgradevoli... Se eri ricco vivevi fuori, in una villa...

It certainly was a beautiful city - one of the most beautiful in history. But remember too that it was a shockingly brutal society (the general public went to the colosseum to watch people being killed ... for fun). The whole society was supported by a huge number of slaves. The people of Rome lived in constant fear of a slave uprising (which did happen more than once). The average life expectancy was 35. Think of that. 35 years old.

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suzi perret Not everyone

Almost everyone lol

حسن نور Do you know everyone on earth?

حسن نور Unless "everyone" for you mean countries with good free education or access to internet

ともしです I said ‘almost’. do u know english ?

Try walking around any Italian or Spanish old town. It's still there.

@@harryflashman3141 Some buildings and walls stand still but the rest is mostly medieval period onwards. I love history but I have enough medieval architecture to look at back home.

Definitely.

@@billofrightsamend4 I mean Italy. Most of the historic buildings are not Roman. It is the same in all European countries, the more centuries back you go, the less architecture there is from that period.

@@maxisussex I walked around Volterra last summer, and I was surprised to see how many Roman buildings were left standing. Many of the shops and apartments date back to Roman times. Some of them even have Latin inscriptions on their walls dedicated to the Caecinia gens, which funded much of the development of the town during the reign of Augustus.

😁

They didn't obviously take inspiration from a stupid guy like you, respect my culture.

@@federicobiraghi7526 Oh come on! He was just joking.

Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas used to have a re-enactment of Roman soldiers come through the casino every hour or something like that, and even though I knew it was fakey and inaccurate, still, I'd get a little thrill to see them march through.

Fai Latief the Roman Empire expanded beyond what is modern day Italy so maybe your ancestors were actually Romans at one point

One of my ancestors came from Italy. I didn't know that until earlier this year but have always felt strongly about ancient Roman times.

"Blessed are the Big Noses."

This is Africa

Roman Empire was not only Italy, but okay

It is impossible because this is not Rome and that is not the Colosseum.

I too think it is a little bit over the top. So clean and bright and perfect were only city centers and some palaces. The majority of city areas were dirty and the architecture was simple.

This was a utopia

Yeah, probably Rome was like this only near power and religious buildings, especially those whose structures are still standing

@@filippog6024 Or during its better years, during the 1st and 2nd century along with the height of the republic - when the state was able to focus on more thorough infrastructural maintenance.

Let me guess… someone stole your sweetroll.

Whhaaatttt😂😂😂😂oh cool ,I see u get reincarnated

Fus-roh-dah!

This is a videogame, he only recorded the gameplay and edited it. He didn't do anything.

Haha Yep same thought

Greek Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilisation exists

@Dioioego The Persian Empire achieved that as well.

@Dioioego I would agree with you about Rome being a sought of a blue print for Western civilisation. You have to also take into account that Western civilisation also borrowed from other civilisations and cultures and it is not all Roman. On the other hand, although the Persian empire got taken over by the Muslims, its art, administration and bureaucratic systems continued to live on and flourish.

@Dioioego You went off topic too mate. It took the ranting of one man to reveal your vile hate of Islamic culture. Remember it was Muslim advancement in sciences and art that sparked the renaissance. Civilisations feed of each other, like a baton passed along across the canvas of history.

@Dioioego building for the gods is the best kind of building that can be done.

This is a game

Those stains are manly cause of pollution

Was it Pripyat in Ukraine?

Maybe they had slaves cleaning everything 24/7... You know, like Disneyworld

Dan Penia Lol not funny but funny

less population back then. you will be surprise that for entire human history (more than 20.000 years) the first time human population reach 1 billion was around 1804. that only 200 years ago. now we have 7 billion people on the planet (between that or less time and pc power required rendering people)

No, they're just Roman around.

@@stevyd Ha 😅😆😋

@@89nekkoinu yes, but I think there used to be around a million citizens in Rome, at its peak. So there should be more people I think. But idk, I'm not a historian

@@stevyd Oh boy oh boy oh boy !!!

@B Whit Italy had real cities already around 700 BC or so. They have seen Rome coming and going, again, just like, later on, the Renaissance. That must be what causes the incredibly urban atmosphere of the peninsula, still today.

Ditto

Africans: ooga booga bois

this is in ptolemeic egypt tho, greco-egyptian

can't tell if sarcastic

The streets were still plagued with gangs, stray dogs, rats, narrow and dark streets, plenty of corpses of politicians and civilians laying randomly and the river flooded the neighborhoods nearby everynow and then. May be super pretty architecture but I wouldnt spend a night in ancient rome even if I somehow could.

@@juanmam.2113 hi,ok true. But we haven't added, many times, the advantages of the past. Many modern cities lack trees and green areas because of poor planing and greedy building owners. regards

Look I'm not saying that I'm a fan of the way cities are planned and maintained today but don't cherrypick the best parts of the ancient world in order to compare them to now. Most cities and towns in developed countries give everyone access to not only food, water, sanitation and medical care, but also internet access, fast transport to places miles away, affordable entertainment, protection from crime and natural disasters, the list goes on. The Roman empire was built off of the back of slavery and conquest and they were unnecessarily brutal even compared to the other civilisations of their time. It's like so much of historical architecture, underneath the glossy marble and dazzling fresco are the stories of thousands upon thousands of slaves and conquered dead. Maybe giving up the splendour for decent living conditions for most people isn't such a bad trade eh?

big up the n-town massive totally agreed. We need to stop romanticising the past and using it as a comparison to modern states

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Same

Some of it is still there but it was usually surrounded by tourists taking selfies. Walking around ancient ROME would be great right now during COVID19- But you would be wise to wear a HAZMAT Suit.

@caleast lol arent all court in the world is built with classical architecture. For example america congress hall is made with classical and renaissance architecture

Fr sometimes I feel like this world would’ve ended up better if Rome would’ve stayed permanent even till now it definitely would’ve been possible they were such smart people

It wasn’t Rome in the video

Either way, absolutely beautiful

Yeah, I wish we’d have a modern futuristic city with the architecture of Rome.

Well, think Gypsies was at this times still a tribe living in India

it is from a video game, dumbass what do you expect?

50% of ancient Rome population were slaves

@@timezz Well, slave at this time what mean to buy and maintain was as for today's person to buy a car. Some families have today even three cars, some have expensive one, other have strong truck able to load stuff but somebody have just a cheap car what in not expensive

It’s not real my friend.

@@ExtremeObservations We have their designs, writings and buildings that prove what they had. It is not complex.

Yeah they kinda touched upon it with the legion base. But I think to show the best was the idea. The glory of the great stuff.

@@TheJoeyboots There were already traffic jams in ancient Rome, so drays of suppliers were allowed to enter the city by night only. 90% of Rome's buildings were then ugly, bricked tenements that broke (or burnt) down from time to time.

Bet you the poor lived in dirty suburbs. This depiction is where the ruling class hours.

This is greece not rome

Exactly! Even on foot, you needed half a day to just cross the city, with its diameter of 3 km or so.

I mean, yeah for sure. It used to be the foremost city in the entire world in a whole bunch of ways. Now it just gets by on name recognition and tourists to see the shit they built 2000 years ago. It’s wild when you think about it

except that isnt rome and not even latin

There are very nice cities nowadays too. You just need to check for places were architecture and urbanism rules over capitalism.

Modernism and technology took creativity out

I think they had a style that they developed and maintained over many centuries so the cities had a pleasing uniformity, through the 20th and 21st century so far architectural styles/ preferred building materials have changed practically every decade meaning modern cities are generally a Hodge podge of styles, or if they have been built recently and quickly have been built in a uniform but bland fashion.

Profits over beauty.

kart0ffel London has local laws that ensure an architectural beauty and consistency with its past. The problem is not capitalism but corruption and lazyness.

All ancient economy was slave/serfdom based. And it still is today, just we don't know and buy in person our own slaves - they produce our goods far away for crumbles and without basic rights . The difference is that now even some Beauty isn't produced by all this pain.

Non è Roma è Alessandria

Nothing in this video is a real place! Get a grip

​@@ExtremeObservationseverything is real, you ignorant.

@@ExtremeObservations We have the designs and archeology to know what was real. It was illegal in Rome to just dump stuff on the streets.