(ANSA) – Rome, September 29 – A `rotating room` built by
Roman Emperor Nero to please his dinner guests has been
unearthed, Italian archaeologists say.
Excavations in the Domus Aurea (`Golden House`) on the
Palatine Hill have revealed remains of a room experts think
is the one described by the ancient historian Suetonius in
his Lives of the Caesars.
The room contained a wooden platform, Suetonius said,
which rotated day and night to follow the movement of the
Earth.
It was

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