Hidden Vault Unearthed Beneath the Ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s Palace, Featured an Array of Murals Archaeologists have made ...

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

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known for his tumultuous reign as Roman emperor from AD 54 to AD 68, built the "Golden House" whose archaeological treasures continue to astonish, with this ...

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 ordered a subject to drive a knife through ...

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

The most well-known landmark in Rome, the Flavian Amphitheater, better known by its medieval name, the Colosseum, was begun by Vespasian in 71 CE on land reclaimed for the people from an artificial ...