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.

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 ...

The Colosseum in Rome is the most popular tourist attractions ... stands was once part of the vast grounds of the sprawling Domus Aurea, or Golden House of Nero. In a swampy valley under the ...