It really brings ancient Rome to life.

Rome looks almost modern at times....

I heard they were not originally white - that happened after the thousand or so years before Europeans rediscovered Roman sculpture, during which time the paint vanished.

Greek architecture and statues were colorfully painted, too.

The interconnected and detailed reality always is better than the fragments we use to build beliefs.

I just posted another one on Greece.

I think they're indulging in a bit of poetic license. The one on Rome includes a building that appears to have at least a dozen floors, & the internet says 9 floors was the tallest.