Nero’s Rotating Dining Room

08.19.2016

"The main dining table, which was round, rotated night and day, imitating the motions of the globe." The surprising construction mentioned by Suetonius in his biography of Nero has been found. On Palatine Hill (Rome), a Franco-Italian team of archaeologists discovered remains of a mechanism that could have allowed the rotation of the floor of the main dining room of the Domus Aurea—Nero's vast imperial palace.

About this video

Original title:

Nero's folly

Production year:

2014

Length:

10 min 20

Director:

Paul Rambaud

Producer:

CNRS Images

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