A Pigment That Defined the Renaissance Was Just Discovered in the Ruins of Nero’s ‘Golden House’
The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...
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Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it
Archaeologists did not provide an exact age for the pigment chunk but linked it to the construction of the Domus Aurea, a palace built in Rome about 2,000 years ago under the rule of Emperor Nero.
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Rethinking Nero
We sit outside, just a hundred yards from the slumbering Domus Aurea, at Osteria da Nerone, one of the few structures in Rome that bear the emperor’s name. “The restaurant is always full ...