Nero's Golden Palace Collapses In Rome

Nolite thesaurizare vobis thesauros in terra, ubi erugo et tinea demolitur, et ubi fures effodiunt et furantur. (Matthew 6:19)

The ceiling of Nero's Golden Palace in Rome partially collapsed Tuesday, firefighters said, according to CBS News.

Piero Melloni, a civil protection official who was at the scene, said: "It's obvious that the rain caused the collapse", according to the Telegraph.

There were no immediate reports of injured people.

Built by Roman emperor Nero in the first century A.D., the sumptuous palace is known to many by its Latin name Domus Aurea.

But Nero did not enjoy the palace for too long.

It was completed in A.D. 68, the same year the Emperor committed suicide.

Domus Aurea was reopened in 1999.

It has since become one of Rome's most popular tourist draws.

Sic transit gloria mundi!

"Verbum autem Domini manet in aeternum. Hoc est autem verbum, quod evangelizatum est in vos", 1 Peter 1:25.