你所不知道的全球五大寶藏

    
4.The Domus Aurea, Italy. 意大利金宮

The Domus Aurea, Latin for golden house, is the largest palace known to have been build in ancient Rome. The artists had enough time to draw replicas of the frescos that decorated its walls before humidity got the best of them. Emperor Nero started building the Domus Aurea after 64 A.D., when a fire almost wiped out the city in its entirety. After his death, his successors wanted to leave no trace of the palace and buried it.

Domus Aurea在拉丁語中是“金屋”的意思，它鋪張地采用大理石、馬賽克、壁畫和粉飾灰泥做裝飾，是目前已知的古羅馬時(shí)期規(guī)模最大的宮殿。在用于裝飾 壁的大部分壁畫被濕氣破壞以前，這些藝術(shù)家有足夠的時(shí)間把它們臨摹了下來。公元64年，一場(chǎng)大火幾乎燒毀了整座羅馬城，隨后尼祿開始興建這座金宮。在尼祿死后，他的繼位者不想留下任何關(guān)于這座宮殿的痕跡，于是把它掩埋起來。