ABSTRACT
The virtual model of ancient Rome created in Caen (France) is a digital model built from the available textual, archaeological and iconographic sources. It is also as realistic a model as possible. Finally, it is a model that makes available the sources used in its creation. Whereas the specialists see an hypothesis of justified reconstruction, the non-specialists find simply the display of a reality which they would otherwise have difficulty imagining. The objective of the team is to contribute to the scholarly knowledge of a city that marked the Western world in an indelible way by its architecture and its technology. This paper will focus on a particular example: the condition of a Roman street in the 4th century CE.
