The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

A hoard of 1,368 coins, most of them silver, has been discovered in a pot by a metal detectorist in Worcestershire, a county in England.

Hidden Vault Unearthed Beneath the Ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s Palace, Featured an Array of Murals Archaeologists have made a stunning discovery beneath the ruins of Emperor Nero’s sprawling palace, ...

although he hadn’t fiddled while Rome burned, he had been singing. With Nero’s mother dead and his tutor retired, the emperor was beyond anyone’s control. Rome was now victim to the ...

In his revisionist book, Nero, Champlin describes his subject as “an indefatigable artist and performer who happened also to be emperor of Rome” and “a public relations man ahead of his time ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman emperor, ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment.

Emperor Nero was one of the most reviled and controversial leaders of Ancient Rome. To some, his reign was a breath of fresh air after his unpopular predecessor, and his failings had no more to do ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance ...