Exploring the History of the Future with Google Earth

Google has teamed up with Past Perfect Productions, UCLA, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to bring Ancient Rome back to life notes that 11 of the buildings in the layer have viewable interiors. The project is quite an interesting and historical look at a time that we can only read about and imagine (or watch movies like Google Earth and its partners are doing shows the potential for a fascinating way of recreating history as we move into the future. Wouldn't it be cool to see any place in known history and virtually navigate through it three-dimensinoally? Ancient Mesopotamia and the beginnings of civilization. The 13 colonies. Very interesting stuff. Almost like virtual-time travel.