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

although he hadn’t fiddled while Rome burned, he had been singing. With Nero’s mother dead and his tutor retired, the emperor was beyond anyone’s control. Rome was now victim to the ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis ... but he was not the last – Claudius sidelined his own son in favor of Nero, while Nerva "adopted" Trajan to ensure a smooth ...

In Rome, archaeologists at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's grand palace, have made a striking discovery: an uncommonly large Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known for ...

Emperor Nero was one of the most reviled and controversial leaders of Ancient Rome. To some, his reign was a breath of fresh air after his unpopular predecessor, and his failings had no more to do ...

The archaeologists unearthed two tubs that, among other things, were used to process the colorful pigments while the palace was under construction. Presumably from within the tubs, they recovered an ...

A great fire ravaged Rome in A.D. 64 and, according to an apocryphal story, Nero played a fiddle during it. In A.D. 68, the Praetorian guard, the forces in charge of protecting the emperor ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people ... famously 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 of the others ...

The history of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Livia Drusilla examines the reign of the empress's husband Augustus. It also covers the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.