The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance ...

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

The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece.

The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...

The 1,700 year old hoard of Roman gold coins was found in Luxembourg and is being hailed as one of the most significant ...

By day, she was the emperor’s wife, the most admired woman in Rome, who lived in a palace and wanted for nothing. By night, ...

She has profound parallels in the ancient history of the Jewish people.

The Roman emperors held vast wealth and control in the ancient world ... bad — such as Caligula (ruled from A.D. 37 to 41) and Nero (ruled from A.D. 54 to 68) — but history judges a few ...

Emperor Nero's grand palace built in 65 CE. Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate or cuprorivaite, was developed more than 4,000 years ago in Egypt and Mesopotamia. As reported by ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman emperor, ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...