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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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A Pigment That Defined the Renaissance Was Just Discovered in the Ruins of Nero’s ‘Golden House’
The Domus Aurea, or Golden House ... toward destruction (though scholars doubt he really played a fiddle while Rome burned), he was also an emperor of creation, overseeing the construction ...
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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 ...