"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. In 2009, 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.
