Rome in a day

In January 2015 we begun to project a philological reconstruction of ancient Rome based on the "Atlante di Roma Antica". This has been possible thanks to this huge catalogue of all the evidence of ancient roman architecture and urban design made by Carafa and Carandini. Every building between the Colosseum and the Forum of Trajan has been studied and designed on Microsoft Publisher.

In May 2015 we proposed to our schoolkids this ambitious project. Every building of the ancient town centre has been designed to be consistent with school equipment. Some detail has been modified in order to avoid an excess of miniaturization which could be too hard to manage for the students. More than 60 children worked on it very passionately and after 2 hours our project became reality.

In January and February 2016 we presented the model in all the public libraries of Bergamo with a series of history lessons attended by hundreds of students. We made them jump into Roman history thanks to our paper model, 3D views of Rome, Apps, and some extract of narrative for children that told them what could mean live in that time.

In February we prepared a special presentation of the model, inviting all the students that worked on it. That afternoon they received a special surprise: Dr. Carafa called us on Skype telling to our children that: "in the perspective of an archaeologist, earth is like a book. Excavating is like turning the pages that composes it, and in the same way, earth tells you a story".