The word “luxury” is synonymous with royalty. The royal emperors all over the globe have been commonly known for leading an ultra-luxurious lifestyle. The infamous Roman emperor Nero is one such name from history. The extravagant Roman emperor is known for his magnificent estate “Golden House,”as much as for his ruthless ways and tyranny. The Roman Czar’s palace is famous for its numerous architectural innovations and the latest is the rotating dining room that has recently been uncovered by archaeologists on the city’s Palatine Hill. The legendary rotating dining room is the one described by the Roman historian Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars. The lavish dining room is said to have had a revolving wooden floor to imitate the motion of the celestial bodies, with a ceiling of fretted ivory, painted with stars, and equipped with panels from which flower petals and perfume would shower onto his guests.
“’The rotating dining room had a diameter of more than 50ft and rested upon a 13ft-wide pillar and four spherical mechanisms that rotated the structure.” A 120ft high bronze statue of the emperor stood at the entrance while inside the palace grounds was an amphitheater, a bath complex, served by an 50-miles aqueduct long. Archaeologist Maria Antonietta Tomei said, ‘This discovery has no equal among ancient Roman architectural finds.’
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