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The complex's water was initially supplied by the Aqua Virgo – already supplying the neighbouring Baths of Agrippa – then by the newly built Aqua Alexandrina after its restoration in the reign of the early third century emperor Alexander Severus, after whom it was subsequently renamed, though some continued to give it Nero's name. [5]
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (/ ˈ n ɪər oʊ / NEER-oh; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.
According to Seneca the small group of praetorian guards reported back to Nero stating: "we personally saw two rocks from which an immense quantity of water issued". Some modern historians, such as Vantini and D'Ambrosio, argue that this place is the Murchison Falls in northern Uganda, meaning that the Romans may have reached equatorial Africa. [5]
After Nero's death, the residence on the Oppian remained in use by Emperors of the Flavian dynasty, until it was destroyed in a fire in 104 AD. [9] The Domus Aurea was used as a cryptoporticus to level the ground and support a platform built over it upon which the Baths were built.
They were given the misnomer 'of Nero' in the medieval period, when they were believed to have been part of a palace - the earliest level actually dates to the final decades of the 1st century, during the reign of Domitian, as suggested by the use of the opus vittatum mixtum building technique with alternating layers of brick and tuff blocks.
Real-Life Sword in the Stone Suddenly Vanishes Colin Anderson - Getty Images The French town of Rocamadour was partly known for a centuries-old sword embedded in a cliff wall 100 feet off a riverbank.
Two inscriptions (1919 and 1930) mark the Pursuit to Haritan, when the Allied forces took Damascus, Homs and Aleppo in October 1918 towards the end of World War I. [4] The first inscription is dedicated to Harry Chauvel 's Desert Mounted Corps , [ 4 ] and the second to the Australian , New Zealand, Indian, and French contingents, as well as the ...
POMPEII, Italy — Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a sacred room has been unearthed at Pompeii with painted blue walls, a rare and expensive color in the Roman city.. Describing it as a ...