(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 19 - Two of Herculaneum's most famous and beautiful domus reopened Wednesday after ... along with Pompeii ...

The colorful material weighed over 5 pounds and was likely made to decorate an emperor’s palace, Italian officials said.

Despite Rome’s glorious architecture ... including those who lived in the countryside – lived in a domus. This was a house built around an unroofed courtyard, or atrium.

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 ...

“I find him very lively,‘’ Dr. Sergio Alfieri said, after visiting the pope at his apartment in the Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday, three days after his release from Rome’s Gemelli hospital.

The pope's doctor says Francis has shown ‘’a truly surprising improvement’’ since returning to the Vatican to convalesce ...