Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient ... lived in a domus. This was a house built ...

Across the street from the Colosseum in Rome ... out to be a rare ancient material. Archaeologists sifted through the ruins of the Domus Aurea, also known as the Golden House of Nero, as part ...

Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill ... The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ...