Archaeologists working at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero’s grand palace in ancient Rome, have uncovered a rare and remarkable artifact: a large ingot of Egyptian blue, the world’s first synthetic ...
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 ...
A metal detectorist uncovered the hoard of 1,368 ancient coins ... At the time, the Roman Empire, under Nero, was struggling to maintain control over England following the earlier invasion ...
Two tanks found at the ancient pigment workshop ... a palace built in Rome about 2,000 years ago under the rule of Emperor Nero. Little of the palace has survived. Excavations at the 2,000 ...