Sep 29 2009
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Nero's Rotating Dining Room Found
And now, your next installment in Probably Impossible Archaeological Finds...
“Italian archaeologists believe they have uncovered a rotating dining room mentioned in ancient descriptions of Roman Emperor Nero`s Golden House. Excavations in the `Domus Aurea` on the Palatine Hill have revealed remains of a wooden platform experts think is the one described by the ancient historian Suetonius in his Lives of the Caesars.
The platform rotated day and night to follow the movement of the Earth and was one of the many attractions of Nero`s fabulous palace.”
