By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Published: 18:55 BST, 8 May 2019 | Updated: 21:02 BST, 8 May 2019
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A richly decorated room at a palatial complex in Rome that belonged to Emperor Nero has been rediscovered for the first time in 2,000 years.
Archaeologists accessed the room of the Domus Aurea and found its walls adorned with panthers, centaurs and a mythical sphinx.
Experts chanced upon the room of the 'Golden House' which is currently half exposed, with the bottom section still buried underneath two millennia of sediment.
Emperor Nero killed himself at the age of 30 after he was accused of initiating the Great Fire of Rome to build his enormous palace.
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Archaeologists accessed the room of the Domus Aurea and found its walls adorned with panthers, centaurs (pictured) and a mythical sphinx.
Various floral patterns were also found in the room. The full room will not be unveiled due to concerns about its structural integrity
Small figures are bordered in red and yellow on the walls, with a white background.
One scene shows the god Pan, another a man armed with a sword, quiver of arrows and a shield fighting a panther while the sphinx image shows it on a pedestal.
There are also aquatic creatures, both real and imagined, architectural motifs of the time, vegetal garlands and branches of trees with delicate green, yellow and red leaves.
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