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- 01The Domus Aurea's rotating ceiling was powered by a mechanism likely driven by slaves below the dining room floor.
- 02After Nero's death, Vespasian drained the lake and began the Colosseum there as a deliberate act of public restitution.
- 03Renaissance painters including Raphael were lowered on ropes into its buried halls to study its frescoes by torchlight.