Unearthed: Nero's revolving banquet hall


	Unearthed: Nero's revolving banquet hall

tabsey

10-7-2009 10:04 PM

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nero, fiddled

tabsey says:

Hard to make much of the pics.
So ironic that these discoveries at a time when the world is in crisis, and the leaders are not able to make strong decisions ( and so they sit and fiddle with handkerchiefs)

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10-8-2009 9:11 AM

wiganfootie

If you go to google image and click on the pic you can see the bigger pic, xx

10-11-2009 3:56 AM

celestialdancer

Great find thanks!

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