The roman empire has become somewhat of a curiosity, after watching the complete Xena episodes twice, discovering the Masada artifacts, & watching US follow the same path.
The oldest things we think of being in use today would be European cathedrals from the 1000's. It's hard to imagine that 1000 years before all the things this era left behind was an even greater era which left nothing behind.


Modern re-enactments are all disappointing. They have costumes much more primitive than the middle ages, to save money. They might assume anything before the middle ages must have been even more primitive.



The best re-enactment might be Gladiator. The costumes look just primitive enough to be from the time, but extravagant enough to believe in.