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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Nero's Rotating Banquet Hall
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the Roman Emperor Nero's
extravagant banquet hall
from the first century A.D., including water-powered mechanisms to keep the 50-foot room constantly slowly rotating.
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