New Italian museum offers 3D virtual tour of ancient city

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Visitors look at a virtual reproduction of an ancient Roman house at the Virtual Archeologic Museum (MAV) in Ercolano near Naple. The MAV is a new virtual interactive museum that opened in front of the ruins of Herculaneum a small city destroyed with ...
Visitors look at a virtual reproduction of an ancient Roman house at the Virtual Archeologic Museum (MAV) in Ercolano near Naple. The MAV is a new, virtual interactive museum that opened in front of the ruins of Herculaneum, a small city destroyed with Pompeii by the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD.

Visitors to Herculaneum, destroyed along with Pompeii in the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, can now take a 3D virtual tour recreating life in the ancient Roman town.


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