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The Roman Palatine Hill: Overlooking the Roman Forum.

Experts have digitally reconstructed one of Rome’s earliest major temples, the Temple of Apollo, built by the first Roman emperor, Augustus. The temple dates to 28 B.C., and its ruins stand adjacent to the emperor’s imperial palaces on the city’s famous Palatine Hill.Until now the original design of the temple had not been well understood, partly due to the ruins’ poor state of preservation. Stephan Zink, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, studied the site and its archaeological remains to produce new measurements and other data to accurately recreate the temple. The Augustan period of the Roman Empire, from about 43 B.C. to A.D. 18, saw a flowering of activity in science, politics, technology, and architecture.

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