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

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most ... When Nero tired of his first wife, Octavia, he had her banished and sent assassins after her. On stage he wore a mask of the ex ...

Agrippina the Younger was a very important woman in the reigns of three of the earliest Roman emperors. She was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero.

A metal detectorist uncovered the hoard of 1,368 ancient coins, mostly silver denarii from the Roman era, in a pot in ...

While the coins were buried during Nero's reign, some of them were minted earlier. All but one of the coins in the hoard are silver denarii, a standard Roman coin, that were minte ...

Although Nero's forces managed to squash the Iceni rebellion, his reign is often considered a tumultuous one. He had both his mother and wife killed ... of protecting the emperor, removed Nero ...

Estimated to have been buried around 55 CE during Emperor Nero's reign, the hoard reflects a tumultuous period in Roman history ... ended with his mother's and wife's murders, the great fire ...