the University of California Los Angeles boasted about how his rule left Rome ' a city of marble ' while historical accounts said it glittered . Historians at Emperor Augustus have reconstructed ancient Rome using architectural software . They found that most of the buildings were built mainly from brick and only a few temples were made from marble . Those that were made from marble would have been difficult to see from many parts of the city , say the researchers .
Emperor Augustus boasted about how his rule left Rome ' a city of marble ' while historical accounts said it glittered . Historians at the University of California Los Angeles have reconstructed ancient Rome using architectural software . They found that most of the buildings were built mainly from brick and only a few temples were made from marble . Those that were made from marble would have been difficult to see from many parts of the city , say the researchers .